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Harish Meena, a former IPS officer, who headed state police during the Ashok Gehlot government, had joined BJP in March 2014 ahead of the Lok Sabha polls and was pitted against his brother Namonarain who was then a Union minister of state

The Bagelkhand-Vindhya terrain encompassing Rewa, Satna, Seedhi, Shahdol, and Singrauli is a melting pot of castes. Here too the BJP holds the lion's share of the 34 seats, but refusal to rid itself of incompetent MLAs pitted in multi-cornered contests may endanger the party's seat retention prospects

The BJP party has fielded its Lok Sabha MP Sona Ram Choudhary in the Assembly poll and given tickets to 12 women, 32 youth, 17 SC and 19 ST candidates

Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is fondly called as ‘mama’ in the state by all sections of people, regardless of age. He is probably the only politician after Jawarharlal Nehru ‘chacha’ to be called by a family member name

Chhattisgarh is all set for its two-phase Assembly elections 2018. The first phase will be held on November 12 and the second phase will be held on November 20

Apart from the distribution of cows, the BJP has also proposed setting up of a mini-India linguistic welfare board and regulating the sale of liquor 

'The Congress encouraged naxalism for its gains, but when it (Naxalism) became dangerous for the security of people, it was the BJP which had to deal with the issue sternly. The Congress has been encouraging Naxalism actively and covertly,' Yogi Adityanath alleged

'In the last four-five years, Modiji gave Rs 3.5 lakh crore to the 15 richest people. While an amount of Rs 35,000 crore is needed yearly to run the MGNREGA scheme in the country, he waived loans worth 10 times that amount of 15 select industrialists,' Rahul Gandhi alleged