The congress party fielded Ram Kishore Shukla from the seat, who recently joined the Congress party after leaving the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in its second list of candidates released on Thursday late night.
PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP President JP Nadda, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh were present in the meeting which was meant to finalise candidates for the upcoming Telangana assembly elections and remaining candidates for Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday questioned the Centre in connection with the Mahadev online betting app case asking why it hasn't still banned the app.
Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Mahila Morcha president Geetha Murthy on Friday slammed Congress MP Rahul Gandhi saying that he does not know anything about the state.
"Congress party's respectability and responsibility towards its alliance partners became clear today after media persons asked Congress leader Kamal Nath about Akhilesh Yadav and he replied with "Arey bhai chodo Akhilesh Vakhilesh," Vijayvargiya told ANI.
In a run-up to the assembly elections in five states, the Bharatiya Janata Party's Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting has been underway in Delhi.
Ahead of Chhattisgarh Assembly elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and poll candidate Ramvichar Netam on Friday accused Congress party of denying tickets to "winning candidate".
Speaking to reporters in Bastar, CM Baghel accused the BJP of continuously telling lies saying that there was a double-engine government but Naxalism increased.
Hitting out at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's statement on having "family ties" with Telangana, Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC K Kavitha on Friday said that the relationship Gandhi family has with the state is of betrayal.
Earlier in the day, Kushwaha expressed his displeasure over denial of the ticket from the Congress party and vowed to make congress face defeat in all the six assembly seats in the district.
The Congress party has fielded Nidhi Jain from Sagar seat against her brother-in-law and three times MLA from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Shailendra Jain. Congress candidate Nidhi Jain is the wife of Sunil Jain, who is younger brother of BJP candidate Shailendra Jain.