Chhattisgarh elections

The voter turnout dipped by 1.05 % as compared to 2013, according to data from the EC. This year the voter turnout was 76.35 % as against 77.40 % in 2013. read more

In the last assembly election in 2013, 77.13% of polling was reported in these 72 seats. read more

Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh said there is no anti-incumbency in the state. read more

Vice-president of Congress’s Chhattisgarh unit and leader of opposition in the assembly, TS Singh Deo believes there is a sense of dissatisfaction in the state that has transformed into wave to remove BJP. read more

Ajit Jogi, who has tied up with Mayawati’s BSP, is hoping to capitalise on the latter’s core support among the SC voters of Bilaspur division to upset poll calculations. read more

Congress state vice president Ghanaram Sahu resigned from the party on the eve of elections on Sunday. read more

In her letter to Sonia Gandhi, Renu Jogi said she has been facing criticism from several political leaders in and outside the Congress after her husband Ajit Jogi left the party and formed the Janata Congress Chhattisgarh in 2016. read more

The BJP is likely to announce the first list of candidates by October 20, which will include nominees for 18 seats from the Bastar region affected by Maoist violence that goes to the polls on November 12. read more

Former chief minister and Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (JCC) founder Ajit Jogi says that people are fed up after 15 years of BJP rule and they want a change. read more

All this talk and chatter of anti-incumbency is more a sentiment created by the angst and frustration of an opposition, Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh said in an interview to HT. read more

According to Bhupesh Baghel, Ganpathy told him that Maoists could influence as many as 37 seats in the Chhattisgarh, and he would like to support the Congress just like he had backed the BJP in the two previous assembly polls. read more

Bhupesh Baghel heads the Congress in Chhattisgarh, which is due to go to the polls this year. He is the party’s key OBC face in the state, where the community accounts for 47 percent of the population read more

Fake news, especially that propagated on social media and messaging platforms, has become a significant problem around the world. read more

With a threefold strategy in mind, BJP is turning to tribals in Maoist-dominated areas to win Chhattisgarh. read more

Narendra Modi is learnt to have interacted with leaders gathered in Haryana’s Surajkund, an annual feature, where BJP and RSS leaders take stock of organisational issues and plan for the future. read more