Congress targeting to win at least 75 out of 90 assembly seats in Chhattisgarh: Kumari Selja
The Hindu
Congress aims to win 75 of 90 seats in Chhattisgarh assembly polls. Rahul Gandhi to address youth convention in Raipur on Sept. 2.
The ruling Congress is aiming to win at least 75 of the 90 seats in the upcoming assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, party's state in-charge Kumari Selja has said.
The state assembly polls are due this year-end.
Talking to reporters here on Saturday after meetings of the Chhattisgarh Congress political affairs committee and the party's Lok Sabha observers in the state, Ms. Selja said the first list of party candidates would be released in the first week of September.
Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal, Ajay Maken, who is the head of the party's screening committee for Chhattisgarh polls, and state Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel were present at the two meetings.
Ms. Selja said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will address a convention of youth in Raipur on September 2 and party president Mallikarjun Kharge will attend an event in the state's Rajnandgaon district on September 8.
“We are confident that we will win at least 75 seats. The planning commission (NITI Aayog) in its report has admitted that 40 lakh people in Chhattisgarh have come out of poverty. You can imagine how the state government has taken care of the needy. Our government has worked for the uplift of every section. Our target is to win at least 75 seats,” Ms. Selja said.
About the ticket distribution process, the applications of ticket aspirants will be accepted at the Block Congress Committee (BCC) level till August 22, and the BCC will convene its meeting on August 24, she said.
No room for complacency till counting is completed, Chandrababu Naidu tells TDP-BJP-JSP contestants. The TDP-BJP-JSP alliance will register a comfortable victory in the general elections over the YSRCP, he says. Alleging that the YSRCP has conspired to create disturbances on the counting day, the TDP national president advises the chief counting agents and their teams to see to it that the officials adhere to norms related to counting.