Bhupesh Baghel said, "Earlier, big incidents used to happen, now small incidents are happening. I think this will also stop in the future. Naxalism has retreated to a great extent with the work we have done in 5 years. As a result, polling booths have been set up inside villages. People w
After casting a vote for the Chhattisgarh Assembly elections, Congress candidate Mohan Markam from Kondagaon expressed confidence that he will win from Kondagaon for the third time saying that BJP cannot compete with Congress in Chhattisgarh.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the voters to cast their vote and become participants in the festival of Democracy as the voting for the first phase of the Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections, involving 20 seats in the state's southern region, began on Tuesday.
According to Sukma Superintendent of Police Kiran Chavan, "One jawan of CRPF CoBRA Battalion was injured in an IED blast triggered by naxals in the Tondamarka area of Sukma. The jawan was deployed for election duty."
The administration in the insurgency-hit Kanker district of Chhattisgarh has initiated a unique move by establishing a 'rainbow' model polling station.
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<
Addressing a public rally in the poll-bound state on Sunday, Nadda alleged that chief ministers of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and Congress leader Kamal Nath collect money for the Congress family.
Ahead of the Chhattisgarh assembly polls to be held this month, a verbal duel has erupted between Union Home Minister Amit Shah and state Chief Minister Bhupesh Bahel.
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.
Rahul Gandhi on Saturday targeted the BJP-led government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Congress demand for a caste census in the country and said more benefits will be given to farmers in Chhattisgarh if the party comes back to power in the state