2018 Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections Nov 12 & Nov 20,2018 - Congress Working President Joins BJP Ahead of Assembly Polls

In a major setback to the opposition Congress in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, its state working president and MLA Ramdayal Uike Saturday joined the ruling BJP.

Uike, who represents Pali-Tanakhar constituency, joined the BJP in the presence of the party chief Amit Shah and Chief Minister Raman Singh in Bilaspur district headquarter

Considered a popular tribal leader in Bilaspur division, he said he was feeling suffocated in the Congress as Scheduled Tribes (ST) leaders were being neglected by the party leadership.


In a press conference held in Bilaspur in the presence of the chief minister as well BJP state unit president Dharamlal Kaushik, he announced that he joined the BJP.

In the state, eighteen naxal-affected constituencies will go to polls in the first phase on November 12, while the rest of the 72 constituencies would go to polls in the second phase on November 20