Assembly polls 2023: Rahul Gandhi promises free education in Chhattisgarh if Congress retains power
Gandhi promised that if the Congress forms the government in the state after polls, then tendu leaves collectors will be given Rs 4,000 per year under the Rajiv Gandhi Protsahan Yojana. This is being seen as a major announcement from the Bhanupratappur seat, which is a part of the tribal-dominated Bastar region.
BJP chief Nadda to address rallies in poll-bound Chhattisgarh on Oct 29
Dongargarh, Khairagarh, and Pandariya are among the 20 constituencies that will go to polls on November 7 in the first phase of elections to the 90-member Chhattisgarh assembly.
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
Farm issues take centre stage as Chhattisgarh goes to poll
The Bhupesh Baghel government in Chhattisgarh is betting big on farmers and has already promised to hike the paddy purchase price to Rs 3,600 per quintal apart from promising to waive farm loans if re-elected. The Centre’s MSP for paddy this season is Rs 2,183 per quintal.
Assembly elections: Newton actor Rajkummar Rao appointed Election Commission's national icon
Earlier personalities such as Pankaj Tripathi, Aamir Khan, Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, and MC Mary Kom were appointed national icons by the poll body.
In 2018 rerun, Baghel promises farm loan waiver if Congress wins Chhattisgarh assembly polls
The Congress had made a similar promise ahead of the 2018 assembly polls to farmers, a move which contributed in the party recording a landslide win and ending the 15-year rule of the BJP.
Women electorate in focus as parties step up outreach in key state polls
With this bloc having emerged as crucial voter segment, the BJP and Congress in particular have pulled out all stops to bring them into their fold
Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: Congress relies on old guard to deliver the goods
The party has now announced the names of 90 candidates for the polls, which will be held in two phases, on November 7 and 17. Congress aims to retain the government riding on its welfare plank.
Congress has an edge in Chhattisgarh elections
The BJP will have to work hard to break the patron-client relationship between the party and the electorate that the Congress has assiduously built up
AAP releases fourth list of 12 candidates for Chhattisgarh assembly polls
With this, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party has so far released the names of 45 candidates for polls in the Congress-ruled state.
Assembly Elections 2023: For Congress, a test of its OBC strategy before Lok Sabha polls
Assembly Elections 2023: Congress’s outreach to OBCs and its promise to carry out a nationwide caste count and remove the 50 percent cap on reservations for SCs/STs and backward classes will first be tested in the assembly polls before the Lok Sabha elections next year. But winning back the OBC vote from BJP won’t be easy
Congress releases 3rd list with 7 candidates for Chhattisgarh Assembly election
The list was issued by the Congress' Central Election Committee for the upcoming assembly election in Chhattisgarh, according to an official communication from the party.
Assembly Elections 2023: Why the battle in MP and Rajasthan looks close, but not in Chhattisgarh
Assembly Elections 2023: In MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, the sitting chief ministers are seen as steady hands. But Shivraj Singh Chouhan faces the burden of a long anti-incumbency and Ashok Gehlot’s fate lies somewhere between the Rajasthan trend of alternating governments and BJP’s disjointed campaigning, while Bhupesh Baghel benefits from a leaderless opposition
Assembly elections 2023: BJP likely to finalise candidates for Telangana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh
The core BJP group of Telangana arrived at Nadda's residence on October 20 to chalk out strategies for the upcoming elections
In Charts: Chhattisgarh's low fiscal deficit, falling poverty marred by digital divide, entrepreneurship woes
A graphical snapshot of the state’s economy, which has had a balanced performance in recent years, lifting an estimated 4 million out of poverty in five years. However, the state government has also had to face accusations of impropriety in implementing central government schemes.
Congress encouraging Naxalism, Chhattisgarh will be free of the menace if BJP is voted to power: Amit Shah
Addressing a rally in Jagdalpur in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, Shah urged people to bring the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power in the state currently ruled by the Congress, promising that his party will make the entire state free of the Naxal menace.
Assembly Elections 2023: Huge rise in capex, but all 5 states may not meet targets
Capital expenditure of the five poll-bound states – Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Telangana – is up 44-443 percent year-on-year in the first five months of 2023-24. But not all five states are on track to meet their budget estimates
Assembly Elections 2023: Behind BJP’s ticket distribution strategy is a growing appetite for risk taking
Assembly elections 2023: : From letting big leaders know that they aren’t bigger than the organisation to fuelling the political ambitions of ordinary workers despite the pitfalls of upsetting the settled order, and downsizing sitting MPs to contest assembly polls, much experimentation is going on in BJP ticket distribution and there is a method to it
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
BJP's Raman Singh seeks postponement of 2nd phase of Chhattisgarh polls on account of Chhath festival
Elections to the 90-member Chhattisgarh assembly are scheduled in two phases on November 7 and 17. The Chhath festival will be celebrated from November 17 to 20 this year.
Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: 33 MLAs face criminal cases, 65 worth over a crore
Among the top three crorepati MLAs, Congress party’s TS Baba and Amitesh Shukla have assets worth Rs 500 crore and Rs 74 crore respectively, while BJP’s Saurabh Singh Thakur possesses assets of more than Rs 27 crore.
Assembly Elections 2023: Ten big (and common) themes across the poll-bound states
Politics is an immensely difficult vocation to pursue and this is intensified by competitiveness and complexities of India’s electoral politics. But we found that governments across the poll-bound states that best negotiate these ten aspects of the coming elections may finish first past the post
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
Assembly elections 2023: BJP fields 7 MPs for Rajasthan, CM Chouhan to contest from his traditional Budhni seat
Rajasthan goes to polls on November 23. The votes for the 200-seat assembly will be counted on December 3
