"Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak remained in Mandalay jail for 6 years, he did not apologised. Sardar Bhagat Singh was hanged and he also did not apologised. Similarly, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel also did not apologised," Baghel said.
Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced former MLA Bramhanand Netam as its candidate from Bhanupratappur which fell vacant following the death of Manoj Mandavi Netam, who was the sitting Congress MLA.
Baghel made the above remark while talking to journalists in the state capital Raipur on Tuesday. Notably, Thakur targeted Rahul Gandhi and said why he did not campaign in Himachal Pradesh.
The Congress held 'Vijay Ashirwaad' rallies across all 68 Assembly segments of Himachal Pradesh on Thursday, the last day for campaigning for the November 12 polls, with party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra leading a door-to-door campaign in Shimla.
Discussions are likely to be held during the special session on the situation that emerged after the HC decision in September that resulted in the reduction of scheduled tribes (ST) quota from 32 percent to 20 percent in jobs and admissions to educational institutions of the State.
Taking a jibe at Prime Minister Modi's statement of addressing premier agencies to conduct fair investigation irrespective of any political party, Bhupesh Baghel said that names of the former Chief Minister and his wife have surfaced in the NAN scam, the ED should conduct a fair investigatio