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RAIPUR: “Save the Date” — the message by means of the Chhattisgarh Leader Minister Bhupesh Baghel on his Twitter take care of — it seems that refers to an extraordinary pledge as he makes an attempt to realize the consider of electorate forward of the Khairagarh Meeting bypoll. The CM has promised a brand new district supplied the constituency elects a Congress candidate as their legislator on April 12, the day of polling.
“On April 16, 2022 Khairagarh gets Congress MLA. On April 17 Khairagarh-Chuikhadan-Gandai will develop into a (new) district,” Baghel tweeted. The counting of votes will happen on April 16
The promise on growing a brand new district is one of the 29 different pledges the Congress has cited in its “Ghoshna Patra” (birthday celebration’s ballot declaration).
The opposition BJP has accused the CM of looking to strike a “deal” with electorate. “Why the introduction of a brand new district conditional on end result? So, if the Congress loses, then Khairagarh won’t develop into a district? Bhupesh Baghel must announce now to make each Meeting constituency within the state as a district forward of subsequent 12 months’s Vidhan Sabha elections,” quipped Vishnu Deo Sai, state BJP president.
“The verdict is the appreciation of the folks’s aspirations,” the CM countered whilst addressing a rally.
Khairagarh seat in Rajnandgaon district fell vacant following the dying of the sitting JCC (J) MLA Devvrat Singh, scion of the erstwhile royal circle of relatives of Khairagarh, in November ultimate 12 months. The regional political outfit JCC (J) was once floated by means of past due ex-CM Ajit Jogi in 2016.
The JCC (J) faces an enormous problem to retain the seat which is about to witness a bipolar contest between the ruling Congress and the opposition BJP.
The ballot fight in Khairagarh is noticed as a proxy contest of Chhattisgarh’s two best leaders CM Baghel and previous CM Raman Singh.
Baghel is main the Congress marketing campaign in Khairagarh house of Rajnandgaon district, which is cited because the stronghold of Raman Singh.
Congress leaders and employees whilst eulogising the advance claimed by means of the Baghel executive also are propagating the birthday celebration’s promise on introduction of a brand new district.
The Congress has fielded OBC girl Yoshoda Verma, the birthday celebration’s Khairagarh block committee leader. The BJP candidate Komal Jangle, who may be the nationwide running committee member of OBC Morcha, had previous received the seat two times however misplaced the 2018 Meeting election by means of a margin of 870 votes.