Chhattisgarh CM Baghel, Singh Deo leave for Delhi to meet Cong high command
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Earlier, TS Singh Deo, who is known as the political rival of Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel in the state Congress, resigned from the Panchayat and Rural development department.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and his cabinet colleague and rival T S Singh Deo who recently gave up one of his ministries left for Delhi on Saturday evening to meet the Congress high command.
The development suggested that the tussle between the two Congress leaders was intensifying with Assembly elections more than a year away.
Baghel, appointed as the Congress' senior observer for the coming Assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh, said he would meet party leaders in Delhi on Sunday.
"I will meet party leaders in Delhi. I will also meet our leaders of Himachal Pradesh tomorrow,” the CM told reporters at Swami Vivekananda Airport here before leaving for the national capital around 5:30 pm.
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Singh Deo, who was in Bhopal, too left for Delhi and will be seeking a meeting with the top Congress leaders, sources close to him said.
On July 16, Singh Deo resigned as the minister of Panchayat and Rural Development, though he retained his other portfolios.
