Born on October 15, 1952 in Kawardha, Raman Singh, a 'Rajput', has been active in politics since 1976
Dr Raman Singh Singh, the two-term Chief Minister who had an uninterrupted 10-year rule in the tribal-dominated state, earned the 'Chawal Wale Baba" sobriquet for the popularity of his unique pro-welfare schemes including distribution of rice at Rs. one and Rs. two per kg to families belonging to extremely poor and below poverty lines categories.
Dr Raman Singh was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Shekhar Dutt during a grand swearing-in ceremony at the Police Parade Ground and the oath-taking ceremony was attended by
- BJP President Rajnath Singh
- senior party leader L K Advani
- Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj
- Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley
- Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi
- Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan
- Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parriker
- Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal
- former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi
- BJP leader Vasundhara Raje Scindia
- former Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda
- BJP leader Harsh Vardhan Singh
- Venkaiah Naidu
- Nitin Gadkari
- Ravishankar Prasad
- Rajiv Pratap Rudy
- Navjot Singh Siddhu
- Ananth Kumar
- Uma Bharati and
- Smriti Irani
Note
The BJP registered a thumping victory by winning 49 of the 90 seats in the 2013 assembly election held in two phases on Nov 11 and Nov 19,2013 for which counting of votes took place and declared on Dec 08,2013, one less than its 2008 tally.
Congress could bag only 39 seats in the 90-member Assembly while the rest of the two seats went to BSP and an Independent each
Dr Raman Singh retained his Rajnandgaon Assembly constituency by defeating Congress' candidate Alka Mudliyar, the wife of former Congress MLA Uday Mudliyar who was killed in the Darbha naxal attack in May this year, by a margin of 35,866 votes
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