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Chhattisgarh: Raipur waits with bated breath for state’s next Chief Minister
The BJP high command has several choices before it. Veteran Raman Singh will surely enjoy support of the maximum number of elected MLAs as many are his loyalists. Or will a young OBC face like OP Choudhary get a chance to neutralise the OBC tilt in state politics? A tribal CM is also a possibility following BJP’s strong showing in ST reserved seats
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Chhattisgarh Election Results 2023: From disarray to sterling victory, this BJP win has few parallels in Indian politics
Chhattisgarh Election Results 2023: Only a few months ago, it looked like BJP was struggling to stay in the reckoning while the Congress looked confident that it had got all the ingredients right like a strong Chief Minister and a popular farm package to win. But the BJP central leadership did not give up and fought hard to bring the party back into the race
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Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: Exit polls suggest Congress ahead but the BJP is not out of contention
Despite each news channel presenting different numbers for the contesting parties, a common thread emerges: the Congress is poised to return to power. However, considering the varying margins shown and the potential for errors acknowledged by surveying agencies, don't rule out the BJP yet
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Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: Rudderless to fighting fit, state BJP unit has its high command to thank
Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: BJP’s central leadership supercharged the BJP campaign in a way that was inconceivable a few months ago. PM Modi’s frontal attacks on a well-placed Bhupesh Baghel shook the Congress but will it be enough to counter Baghel’s careful nurturing of the farm vote?
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Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: To qualify as a regional satrap, Bhupesh Baghel needs a win today
Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: Bhupesh Baghel has dominated the government and state politics to such an extent that the Congress party began visualising a national profile for him. All that is at stake today
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Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: Can BJP stage a comeback with Mahadev betting app allegations?
Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: The BJP, with PM Modi at the fore, has launched frontal attacks on chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, citing central agency revelations on the CM and his aides benefitting from money laundering through the Mahadev betting app. Urban voters may be swayed, giving the BJP respite from its failure to position a CM face against Baghel
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Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: Voters here take manifestos very seriously leaving both Congress, BJP wary
Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: BJP paid a huge price for its failure to implement its 2013 promises. Congress reaped rich dividends with its smartly packaged 2018 manifesto that appealed to farmers and government job seekers. But it has disappointed the latter group in implementation. Learning a big lesson, the 2023 BJP manifesto matches Congress in appealing to farmers
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Chhattisgarh Election 2023: First phase in Bastar dominated by religious conversion and tight contests
Chhattisgarh Election 2023: Congress’s narrative, originally focused on MSP for Minor Forest Produce and Tendu Patta procurement, loan waiver promise and MSP on paddy produce, is getting overshadowed in most seats by the simmering polarisation over religious conversions in the tribal community, which the BJP is attempting to tap
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Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: All eyes on Congress gambit of dropping 22 sitting MLAs
Chhattisgarh elections 2023: The Congress move to drop nearly a third of its sitting MLAs in Chhattisgarh is without parallel in the Grand Old Party in recent times. But what is clear is that the seats have been apportioned in a manner that influential leaders and their factions don’t have much to complain about
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Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: Religious conversions trigger bitter intra-tribal divide
Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: Chhattisgarh’s tribal community, recovering from a bruising left wing insurgency, battles a new scourge within. Converts to Christianity and those opposing the conversions cannot get along. Congress’s high paddy MSP bet could get neutralised due to the unhappiness of “neo-converts” over GOP’s indifference to attacks against them and the aligning of “anti-converts” with BJP
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Chhattisgarh: Raman Singh stamp on BJP ticket distribution spotlights uneasy balancing act between old and new faces
Many of the leaders from the Raman Singh era who party workers blame for the comprehensive defeat of 2018 have staged a return. This is in sharp contrast to the bold BJP strategy in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections to drop all 10 of its sitting MPs
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Chhattisgarh: Congress and BJP grapple with ticket distribution difficulties on poll eve
Localised rebellions over ticket distribution are hurting BJP while the Bhupesh Baghel-TS Singhdeo factional fights cloud the Congress defence of its government. Meanwhile, the OBC and Adivasi communities are in a state of churn with no indication which way they will shift
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Chhattisgarh: Congress sets off another fire while firefighting Singhdeo’s discontent
The sizeable Sahu community in the state is upset that senior Congress leader Tamradhwaj Sahu, who was reportedly the high command’s original choice for chief ministership in 2018, hasn’t been given a commensurate elevation while upgrading TS Singhdeo as Deputy Chief Minister
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Chhattisgarh: BJP must decide whether Raman Singh or a new face should lead party to polls
The BJP has to put its house in order before the polls. Three-time former chief minister Raman Singh is the most recognisable face of the party but he faces a tough task reconnecting with party cadres and the public. Or will the BJP take a gamble and project a relatively new entrant like the popular ex-IAS officer OP Choudhary?
