New Delhi: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel gained the Patan seat towards nephew and BJP candidate Vijay Baghel by a margin of 19,723 votes. Vijay Baghel is an MP from the Durg parliamentary constituency, underneath which Patan falls.
Amit Jogi, son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi and chief of the Janata Congress Chhattisgarh-Jogi (JCC-J) additionally contested the election from the seat and is at present trailing at third place. His celebration the JCC (J) was based in 2016 after the previous CM broke away from the Congress.
The Baghel versus Baghel battle is among the most watched contests within the 2023 Chhattisgarh meeting election. However this isn’t the primary time that uncle Bhupesh and nephew Vijay have been pitted towards one another — the 2 went head-to-head in 2003, 2008, and 2013 as properly.
Bhupesh has gained two of the three contests, however Vijay beat him in 2008 by a margin of seven,842 votes.
In 2019, six months into Bhupesh’s first tenure as CM, Vijay gained the Durg parliamentary seat by over 3 lakh votes. In Patan alone, Vijay had secured over 30,000 votes.
5-time MLA Bhupesh Baghel contested, and gained, his first meeting election from Patan in 1993 — when Chhattisgarh was nonetheless part of Madhya Pradesh.
The Baghels are Kurmis — a dominant OBC caste group within the state that, together with Sahus, reportedly kinds 36 % of the state’s inhabitants.
The Chhattisgarh Congress entered the fray on the again of the Baghel authorities’s marquee schemes, such because the Godhan Nyay Yojana, which guarantees procurement of cow dung at Rs 2/kg from cattle-rearers, and the Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Bhumihin Krishak Majdoor Nyay Yojna, which offers yearly monetary help to the households of landless agricultural labourers within the state’s rural areas.
Within the runup to the elections, the Congress promised farm mortgage waivers and paddy procurement at Rs 3,200/quintal.
In the meantime, the BJP’s election technique concerned concentrating on the Baghel authorities on the problems of corruption, implementation of welfare schemes, and never fulfilling guarantees from its 2018 manifesto — together with liquor prohibition.
(Edited by Uttara Ramaswamy)
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