The third and final phase of elections in Chhattisgarh will take place on May 7, with 7 constituencies going to polls.
Polling took place in Bastar in the first phase on April 19 while Rajnandgaon, Mahasamund and Kanker voted in the second phase on April 26.
The elections will now take place in Sarguja, Raigarh, Korba, Bilaspur, Durg, Janjgir-Champa and Raipur.
In the 2019 elections, BJP won 9 out of the 11 seats in Chhattisgarh while Congress bagged the remaining 2.
Of the 7 seats that will vote in the third phase, six were won by BJP while Congress registered a victory in Korba.
Key constituencies
Raipur: The state capital Raipur will witness a keen clash between BJP's Brijmohan Agarwal and Congress's Vikas Upadhyay.
Notably, BJP dropped its sitting MP Sunil Kumar Soni from the seat and chose senior leader Agarwal instead.
In 2019, BJP comprehensively defeated the Congress from Raipur by a big margin of nearly 3.5 lakh votes.
Bilaspur: Here, BJP's Tokhan Sahu will face Congress candidate Devender Singh Yadav. In 2019, Arun Sao, who is the deputy chief minister of Chhattisgarh, had won the seat, defeating his Congress rival by nearly 1.3 lakh votes.
Korba: Korba will witness a keenly-watched contest since it was the only other seat besides Bastar that Congress won in 2019.
In fact, even in 2009, Congress's Charan Das Mahant had won this seat.
In 2024, BJP has fielded its national vice-president Saroj Pandey from the constituency against sitting Congress MP Jyotsna Mahant.
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