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Chhattisgarh Voting is taking place on 20 seats of the first phase of the Chhattisgarh assembly elections today, Tuesday. Election campaigning in these 20 seats was stopped on Sunday evening. The fate of 223 candidates is at stake in 20 seats of the first round, of which 198 male and 25 female candidates are in the fray. The first phase of elections in seats in Naxal-hit areas like Bastar and Durg is set to be a litmus test for the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Out of the 20 seats in the first phase, the Congress is in possession of 19 seats while the BJP has only one seat, which is Former Chief Minister (Former Chief Minister) Raman Singh’s Seat
Thus, it will be a big challenge for the Congress to retain its seats, while the BJP will have to go through a fiery path to return to power. Thus the credibility of both the parties is at stake in the first phase.
Big faces campaigned
That is why on behalf of the Congress Rahul Gandhi (Rahul Gandhi) From Priyanka Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge, while on behalf of BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Amit Shah and JP Nadda have campaigned.
Calculation of 20 seats in the first phase
Chhattisgarh (Chhattisgarh) In the first phase, voting will be held on Tuesday in 12 seats of Naxal-affected Bastar division and 8 seats in Rajnandgaon, Kawardha and Khairagarh of Durg division. Out of 20 seats in the first phase, 13 seats are reserved for Scheduled Tribes. While 7 seats are for general category.
Thus, in the last elections, the dominance of the Congress was seen in the tribal majority areas and the party captured 19 out of 20 seats. All 12 seats in Bastar division went to Congress, while it managed to win 7 seats except one seat in Durg division. The BJP won only one seat from Rajnandaga, from which Raman Singh is the MLA.
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