Chhattisgarh Assembly Polls

BJP announces list of star campaigners for Chhattisgarh assembly polls

Elections in Chhattisgarh will take place in two phases, on November 7 and November 17. November 7 will see the first round of voting for 20 seats in Chhattisgarh, while November 17 will see voting for the remaining 70 seats

Chhattisgarh Assembly poll results: Congress' Mohammad Akbar wins by highest margin against BJP rival Ashok Sahu

Akbar, a former state minister and All India Congress Committee (AICC) member, defeated BJP's Ashok Sahu, who got 77,066 votes, in Kawardha seat.

Congress fact-checks Modi's Dalit jibe about Sitaram Kesri, says PM got it wrong; backward class leader was OBC

The Congress on Sunday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comment on former Congress president Sitaram Kesri, and clarified that Kesri belonged to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category and was not a Dalit, like Modi claimed.

BJP chief Amit Shah to release manifesto for Chhattisgarh Saturday, focus on farmers and youth

The BJP manifesto will put forth the vision for a new Chhattisgarh, which will be among the most developed states of the country by 2025, state Agriculture Minister Brijmohan Agrawal said.

Chhattisgarh Assembly polls: Congress state working president Ramdayal Uike joins ruling BJP, claims he felt 'suffocated'

Ramdayal Uike, who had quit the BJP and joined the Congress in 2000, described his return to the ruling party as "ghar wapsi".

BSP releases first list of candidates for phase one of Chhattisgarh Assembly election; polls to be held on 12 November

Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Thursday released its first list of six candidates for the first phase of Chhattisgarh Assembly polls scheduled to be held on 12 November.

BJP announces first list of 77 candidates for Chhattisgarh polls, fields Raman Singh from Rajnandgaon seat

Among the 77 candidates announced out of a total of 90 Assembly segments, 14 are women candidates and 14 sitting MLAs have been replaced with new names, Union minister JP Nadda said.

Chhattisgarh Assembly Election: Congress offices in Raipur, Bilaspur vandalised by party workers over ticket distribution

The incidents took place on Thursday evening, a party leader said. The party, however, chose to play down the incidents calling them "minor protests", and claimed that there was no discontent among the workers. Several supporters of Congress leader Ejaz Dhebar, who was eyeing a ticket from Raipur City South constituency, entered the party's state office in the capital late Thursday evening and raised slogans against the leadership.

'Festival of vote' vs 'Boycott elections': Poster war unfolds between Election Commission and Naxals in poll-bound Chhattisgarh

Interiors of Dantewada and Sukma regions, which have been among the epicentres of Naxalism in Chhattisgarh, are full of posters put up by Naxals asking villagers to boycott the elections.

Chhattisgarh Assembly polls: 1,291 candidates to fight it out for 90 seats; triangular contest adds dimension to state politics

Of the 90 Assembly constituencies in Chhattisgarh, polling will be held for 18 in the first phase of the elections on 12 November, while voting for the remaining 72 is scheduled for 20 November.