Chhattisgarh

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, December 3 The BJP on Sunday swept the Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in stunning victories, leaving only Telangana for the Congress as the saffron party gained a massive head start over...

Ruchika M Khanna Chandigarh, December 3 The Aam Aadmi Party’s ambitions of gaining a political foothold in the Hindi heartland seems to have been cut short after the party has been unable to win a single seat in any of...

Raipur, November 17 A voter turnout of 70.59 per cent (provisional) was recorded in the second phase of Chhattisgarh assembly elections for 70 constituencies on Friday, where voting was held under a thick security blanket of police and paramilitary personnel,...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 16 The Congress is riding a pro-incumbency wave in Chhattisgarh and leadership issue is not a challenge, party general secretary in charge of the state Kumari Selja said today. No rebel factor Amid the likelihood...

New Delhi, November 16 The BJP and the Congress went all out in Madhya Pradesh to woo the electorate with both clocking hundreds of rallies led by top leaders. While BJP leaders, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi top campaigner, held...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 15 Shrillness marked the closure of election campaigns in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on Wednesday with leaders firing salvos at one another in the final bid to woo the electorate. Madhya Pradesh (single phase for...

New Delhi, November 8 The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday released a list of 14 suspects wanted in the Tekulagudem naxal attack case, which had taken place in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, where 22 security personnel were killed in April...

New Delhi, November 7 The first phase of the Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh and single-phase polling in Mizoram kicked off today, inaugurating a month-long electoral process in five states. While the voting for 20 seats out of the 90-member Chhattisgarh...

Raipur, November 7 A provisional turnout of around 71 per cent was recorded in the first phase of Chhattisgarh assembly elections for 20 constituencies on Tuesday, voting for which was held in separate time slots, amid Naxalite violence and the...

Sukma, November 7 Four security personnel were injured on Tuesday in an encounter with Naxalites in the forest between Minpa and Duled villages in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, where polling for the first phase of the assembly elections was held on...

New Delhi, November 7 The tentative voter turnout in Chhattisgarh in the phase one of assembly polls stood at 60.92 per cent till 3 pm, the Election Commission said on Tuesday. In Chhattisgarh, 20 out of 90 seats went for...

Shubhadeep Choudhury New Delhi, November 6 The last major set of state elections in the country before the Lok Sabha poll will kick off tomorrow with the polling for all 40 constituencies of Mizoram and the first phase of voting...

Dantewada, November 5 A BSF jawan deployed on election duty was killed after a grenade in his possession exploded accidentally in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Sunday, police said. The blast occurred when a team of the BSF’s 70th battalion stationed...

Aditi Tandon Jhiram Ghati (Sukma), November 5 Deathly silence looms over Chhattisgarh’s Sukma Road that leads to Jhiram Ghati Shaheed Smarak, the site of the bloodiest ever naxal hit on a political convoy in Indian history. It was here on...

New Delhi, November 4 With three days to go for Chhattisgarh polls, a political storm has erupted in the state with the BJP accusing Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel of fighting the poll using illegal betting money of Mahadev app, and...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 2 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday accused the Congress government in Chhattisgarh of indulging in “loot and lies” and declared that his ongoing fight against corruption would continue notwithstanding personal consequences of the same....

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel is confident that the Congress government will be re-elected on December 3. The CM spoke to Aditi Tandon in Raipur about Congress prospects, BJP’s accusations of corruption against his government and the challenge of balancing...

Ashok Gehlot vs Vasundhara Raje  CM Ashok Gehlot (72) Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his rival Vasundhara Raje are known in Rajasthan as the comeback leaders. Both have survived rebellions, staying afloat in tempests. Gehlot not only crushed a daring...

Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh is confident of a BJP win in the upcoming Assembly elections. In an interview with Aditi Tandon at Raipur, the BJP national vice-president talks at length about the party’s poll prospects. Excerpts: How is...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 25 The BJP on Wednesday pitted a businessman opposite erstwhile royal and Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister TS Singhdeo in the high-profile Ambikapur seat. Rajesh Agarwal, former Lakhanpur Nagar Panchayat chairman and member of BJP’s Surguja...

New Delhi, October 19 Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said the people of Chhattisgarh had made up their mind to defeat the Congress, which “actively supports Naxals”, and install a BJP government in the state. Shah, addressing poll...

Shubhadeep Choudhury New Delhi, October 18 The Congress on Wednesday released its second list of 53 candidates for the Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, fielding party veteran late Motilal Vora’s son Arun Vora from Durg City. With the second list, the...

Raipur, October 18 BJP vice president and former Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Wednesday urged the Election Commission of India to postpone the second phase of Chhattisgarh assembly polls scheduled on November 17 in view of the Chhath festival....

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 16 A day after the Congress fielded all its top guns in the upcoming Chhattisgarh elections, the BJP went all guns blazing against the ruling party, accusing it of fomenting communal divide. In Rajnandgaon today...

Shubhadeep Choudhury New Delhi, October 15 The Congress on Sunday announced the first list of candidates for next month’s Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana. For the 230-member strong Madhya Pradesh House, the Congress has announced 144 names....