Cong won’t project C’garh CM face
On the lines of its policy in Gujarat, the Congress will not project any leader as the chief ministerial candidate for the 90-member Chhattisgarh Assembly polls next year.
Congress general secretary incharge of Chhattisgarh, P.L. Punia, said, “The party will not project anyone as the CM candidate for the upcoming Assembly elections in 2018. Instead we will rely
The Congress received a major setback in 2013 when state chief Nand Kumar Patel was killed along with 30 others in Bastar
on collective leadership.” The Congress has recently appointed Mr Punia to look after the affairs of the party in the state replacing B.K. Hariprasad, the Rajya Sabha MP who had been incharge of Chhattisgarh for the last six years.
The Congress has been critical of the Raman Singh-led BJP government in the state and has also levelled allegations of corruption against the chief minister.
The Congress has been out of power in the state since 2003 when Ajit Jogi headed the party government. Since then, the Congress has struggled in the state to take on the BJP regime. The Chhattisgarh Congress has been a major faction ridden organisation.
Mr Jogi in 2016 left the Congress along with his supporters to form his own party. Mr Jogi had been demanding that he be made the Congress state unit chief a demand that was not acceptable to the Congress high command. The Congress received a massive setback in 2013 when its state President Nand Kumar Patel was killed along with 30 others in Bastar by Maoists.