Chhattisgarh Election

Tokhan Sahu, a first-time MP, was the sole representative among the 10 newly-elected BJP parliamentarians from Chhattisgarh to be inducted into Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers on Sunday.

Former Chhattisgarh chief minister and Congress candidate Bhupesh Baghel suffered a defeat from sitting BJP MP Santosh Pandey in the Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha seat by a margin of 44,411 votes.

Among the 10 states and two Union Territories that went to polls, only three - Chhattisgarh, Goa, and Karnataka - recorded an increase in turnout compared to 2019.

Senior Congress leader and AICC general secretary in-charge of Chhattisgarh, Sachin Pilot, has refuted the allegations levelled by his former party colleague, Radhika Khera, and said that a leader needs "some reason" for changing their party.

Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel mocked the BJP today, saying the party has forgotten about its 400-plus aspiration after the first two phases of election. "After Phase 3, they are in a tight corner," he added.

An MLA from the ruling BJP in Chhattisgarh stoked a controversy after a purported video that went viral on Saturday showed him talking about "slitting throats" of those who indulge in religious conversion.

Amid heightened security measures, the Maoist-affected Bastar Lok Sabha constituency in Chhattisgarh will go to polls in the first phase of general elections tomorrow, where 11 candidates are contesting.

Twenty-nine Maoists, including a senior rebel leader - Shankar Rao, who had a bounty of Rs 25 lakh on his head - were killed by security forces during an encounter in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Tuesday afternoon.

Congress's Sachin Pilot expressed confidence today that the party will perform better in the coming general election. This, he said, is the indication from the public mood in different parts of the country that he has visited.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at Congress today, saying it overlooked the needs of the poor for decades since Independence and never understood their pain.

In Chhattisgarh's Bastar region, a young tribal doctor named Prakash Kumar Gota, who lost three family members to Maoist violence, has decided to contest the upcoming elections as an independent candidate.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief JP Nadda, and Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah have been named as star campaigners of the saffron party among 40 others in Chhattisgarh which will vote in three phases of general elections.

A day after the Election Commission (EC) notified the dates for the Lok Sabha elections, former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday called the now-junked electoral bond scheme the "biggest scam of the year".

An upbeat BJP is eyeing to knock out the Congress in all 11 Lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh after its landslide victory in the recent assembly polls in the state, where the grand old party is striving to overcome its shock defeat.

The Congress has fielded Jyotsna Mahant once again from the Korba Lok Sabha seat. In 2019, Ms Mahant defeated BJP candidate Jyoti Nand Dubey by over 25,000 votes. This time, she will be contesting against BJP's Saroj Pandey.

Tokhan Sahu, a first-time MP, was the sole representative among the 10 newly-elected BJP parliamentarians from Chhattisgarh to be inducted into Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers on Sunday.

Former Chhattisgarh chief minister and Congress candidate Bhupesh Baghel suffered a defeat from sitting BJP MP Santosh Pandey in the Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha seat by a margin of 44,411 votes.

Among the 10 states and two Union Territories that went to polls, only three - Chhattisgarh, Goa, and Karnataka - recorded an increase in turnout compared to 2019.

Senior Congress leader and AICC general secretary in-charge of Chhattisgarh, Sachin Pilot, has refuted the allegations levelled by his former party colleague, Radhika Khera, and said that a leader needs "some reason" for changing their party.

Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel mocked the BJP today, saying the party has forgotten about its 400-plus aspiration after the first two phases of election. "After Phase 3, they are in a tight corner," he added.

An MLA from the ruling BJP in Chhattisgarh stoked a controversy after a purported video that went viral on Saturday showed him talking about "slitting throats" of those who indulge in religious conversion.

Amid heightened security measures, the Maoist-affected Bastar Lok Sabha constituency in Chhattisgarh will go to polls in the first phase of general elections tomorrow, where 11 candidates are contesting.

Twenty-nine Maoists, including a senior rebel leader - Shankar Rao, who had a bounty of Rs 25 lakh on his head - were killed by security forces during an encounter in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Tuesday afternoon.

Congress's Sachin Pilot expressed confidence today that the party will perform better in the coming general election. This, he said, is the indication from the public mood in different parts of the country that he has visited.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at Congress today, saying it overlooked the needs of the poor for decades since Independence and never understood their pain.

In Chhattisgarh's Bastar region, a young tribal doctor named Prakash Kumar Gota, who lost three family members to Maoist violence, has decided to contest the upcoming elections as an independent candidate.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief JP Nadda, and Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah have been named as star campaigners of the saffron party among 40 others in Chhattisgarh which will vote in three phases of general elections.

A day after the Election Commission (EC) notified the dates for the Lok Sabha elections, former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday called the now-junked electoral bond scheme the "biggest scam of the year".

An upbeat BJP is eyeing to knock out the Congress in all 11 Lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh after its landslide victory in the recent assembly polls in the state, where the grand old party is striving to overcome its shock defeat.

The Congress has fielded Jyotsna Mahant once again from the Korba Lok Sabha seat. In 2019, Ms Mahant defeated BJP candidate Jyoti Nand Dubey by over 25,000 votes. This time, she will be contesting against BJP's Saroj Pandey.