Raman Singh

Raman Singh is a senior BJP leader and former chief minister of Chhattisgarh. His political career started when he joined the party's youth wing in 1976-77. He became a councillor of Kawardha municipality in 1983. He became an MLA from the Kawardha seat in 1990, in undivided Madhya Pradesh. In 1999, he became an MP from the Rajnandgaon constituency. He was also the Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry between 1999 and 2003. He became the CM of Chhattisgarh in 2003. He has been the MLA from the Rajnandgaon seat since 2008. He remained the CM of the state for three terms. In the 2018 polls, he defeated Congress party's Karuna Shukla by around 17,000 votes from the Rajnandgaon seat. Raman Singh is up against Congress's Girish Dewangan.