Voting for the first phase of the Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections began for the remaining assembly constituencies, which include Pandaria, Kawardha, Khairagarh, Dongargarh, Rajnandgaon, Dongargaon, Khujji, Bastar, Jagdalpur, and Chitrakote.
Congress and BJP are engaged in a fierce fight in Chhattisgarh, with both parties seeking to outdo each other in terms of poll promises as the state faces the first phase of assembly polls on Tuesday for 20 seats in Naxal-affected Bastar region and a few constituencies in other districts<
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Sunday, while urging people to vote for BJP candidate Maniram Kashyap from Bastar assembly constituency, said that once the double-engine government of the BJP is back in Chhattisgarh, it will end Naxalism and stop immoral acts of religious co
Notably, in 2013, the state's entire Congress leadership was wiped out in the Naxal attack that took place in Bastar's Jheeram Ghati killing as many as 29 people, including the then state Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel, his son Dinesh, senior party leader Mahendra Karma and former Union
The 90-member Chhattisgarh assembly will go for elections in two phases -- November 7 and November 17 -- and the counting of votes, along with those of four other poll-bound states, has been scheduled for December 3.
The first phase of voting in Chhattisgarh is going to be held on November 7. Voting will be held on 20 seats in the first phase, out of which 12 seats fall under the Bastar division. Conducting voting in the interior areas of Bastar has been a big challenge for the Election Commission (EC
A 40-year-old man was allegedly strangled to death by Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on suspicion of being a "police informer", officials said on Thursday.
"They (BJP) have only 2 topics, communalism and religious conversion. They make brothers (of two communities) fight with each other. They won't do any work but make people fight and collect votes. They have hatred and violence in their mind," CM Baghel told a gathering in Bastar.
The Dussehra festival in Bastar has started to take shape as idols of goddess Danteshwari and other local deities have been brought during a period of 75 days during the month of Ashwin.
Two Naxals were killed following an exchange of fire with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Saturday morning, a top police official said.
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.