Vikrant Shekhawat : Dec 09, 2023, 05:15 PM
Chhattisgarh New CM: Who will be the new Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh? The answer to this question is expected to be found tomorrow. Actually, tomorrow the meeting of BJP legislature party has been called in Raipur. CM will be elected in the legislature party meeting and then the central observers will inform the central leadership about the opinion of the MLAs. In this way the name of Chhattisgarh CM will be cleared tomorrow.BJP won 54 seatsBJP won a landslide victory in the assembly elections in Chhattisgarh. BJP has achieved majority by winning 54 out of 90 seats. The central leadership on Friday appointed Union ministers Arjun Munda, Sarbananda Sonowal and party general secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam as observers to choose the leader of the legislature party in the state. According to the latest information, a meeting of 54 newly elected MLAs will be held in Raipur on Sunday in the presence of observers.Consideration of making OBC or tribal leader the CMIt is being said that the BJP, which is contesting the elections without presenting a chief ministerial face, is considering handing over the reins to an OBC or tribal leader in Chhattisgarh. According to party sources, former Union Minister Vishnu Dev Sai, Renuka Singh, who resigned from the post of Union Minister after being elected as MLA, former state ministers Ramvichar Netam and Lata Usendi, Gomti Sai, who resigned from the post of MP after being elected as MLA, is the Chief Minister. Are in the race for the post.Tribal share is 32 percentTribals constitute 32 per cent of the state's population and the BJP has this time won 17 of the 29 seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes (ST) in the 90-member state assembly. In the year 2018, BJP had won only three seats reserved for ST category. All the 14 assembly constituencies of tribal-dominated Surguja division, which were won by Congress in 2018, were won by BJP this time and this is being considered the reason for BJP's excellent performance in the elections. Vishnudev Sai, Renuka Singh, Ramvichar Netam and Gomati Sai are from this division.Apart from this, state party president Arun Sao, who resigned from the post of MP after being elected MLA, and bureaucrat-turned-politician OP Choudhary, both from backward castes, are also among the contenders for Chief Minister. The Saus come from the Sahu (Teli), an influential OBC community in the state that mainly lives in Durg, Raipur and Bilaspur divisions. There is about 45 percent OBC population in the state.