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.
"Corruption" and the price of paddy have emerged as key issues in the polls, with the BJP targeting the Congress government led by Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on alleged scams and the "hawala money funding" related to the Mahadev gaming app.
Hitting out at Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel over the ED's claim that he received crores from the promoters of the Mahadev betting app, Union Minister Smriti Irani on Monday said the ruling Congress was meeting its expenses for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections with
As per the data from the Election Commission of India, in the elections to the 90-member assembly, a total of 2,03,80,079 crore voters including 19,839 service voters will be able to exercise their franchise.
With Chhattisgarh set to hold its first phase of Assembly polls on November 7, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel launched the Congress manifesto for the elections on Sunday, promising a caste-based census, farm loan waivers, and subsided LPG cylinders to women, among other things, if voted back
"No one can even think that someone would use Mahadev's name to loot money. You could use any name 'Zinto', or 'Minto'. But you used Mahadev's name and looted not one or two but Rs 508 crores," the Assam Chief Minister said.
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.
"We pledge to conduct a caste census in the state if voted back. The census exercise would cover the Scheduled Caste, tribal castes, backward classes, general category and minorities," Baghel announced after unveiling the party's manifesto in Raipur on Sunday.
In a major announcement ahead of elections in five states this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that his government has decided to extend the free ration scheme for the poor for five years.