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Saturday, October 20, 2018

2018 Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections: Ajit Jogi's Daughter-in-law to Contest from Akaltara on BSP Ticket




Former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi's daughter-in-law is all set to contest assembly elections on a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket. The announcement comes a day after Jogi decided not to fight the polls, and instead engage in campaigning for alliance partners, including BSP.

Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (JCC) chief's 31-year-old daughter-in-law Richa had joined Mayawati-led party on Sunday Oct 14,2018, following which her name surfaced in BSP's list on Friday. Richa will contest elections from Akaltara in Janjgir-Champa district.

With this, the Jogi clan, a powerful family in Chhattisgarh politics, is sure to see a divide among Congress, JCC and BSP. Jogi's wife Renu is a sitting MLA from Kota and has reportedly applied for a ticket from the same seat.


Time and again, Renu has expressed her faith in Congress, declining to side with her husband's party. Besides, Jogi’s son Amit, a sitting MLA from Marwahi, the traditional seat of Ajit Jogi, is sure to contest poll from the constituency on JCC ticket.

The Akaltara seat was won by Congress' Chunnilal Sahu in 2013, while the BJP had managed win here in 2008 as BSP's Saurabh Singh had defeated the Congress candidate. Singh, however, later on switched over to Congress ahead of 2013 assembly polls.

Meanwhile in 2003, when the state was carved out of MP and went to polls for the first time, Congress' Ramadhar had won the election defeating the BJP candidate. However, the victory margin was merely 1,430 votes.
 

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