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Electioneering has gained momentum in 18 constituencies of Chhattisgarh, which will go to polls in the first phase on the 12th of this month.
Star campaigners of various parties are touring Bastar and Rajnandgaon areas to garner support for their candidates. Chhattisgarh has a total of 90 constituencies. Scrutiny of nominations for the second phase was held yesterday.The last day for withdrawal of candidature is tomorrow. 72 seats will go to polls in the second phase on the 20th.
BJP president Amit Shah will visit Chhattisgarh on Sunday, November 4 and address several public meetings in the state where Assembly elections will be held in two phases on November 12 and 20.
BJP chief, who had visited Chhattisgarh last month in Bilaspur region and also Raipur, will be given a “grand welcome” by the party leaders on his arrival at Raipur.
In the afternoon, he will address a public rally at Ambagarh Chowki and Khujji Vidhan Sabha in Rajnandgaon district.
Chief Minister Raman Singh is seeking re-election from his known bastion the Rajnandgaon assembly constituency.
According to BJP sources here, Mr Shah will address public gathering at Sadak Atariya, Khairagarh Vidhan Sabha in Rajnandgaon district..
Meanwhile Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Raj Babbar hit out at Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, a doctor by qualification, for pushing the state’s “health” into “critical condition”.
Babbar said that Chhattisgarh ranked 20th in the list of 21 states for providing health services, and posts of doctors and nurses were lying vacant, the Congress leader added.
“The chief minister has dashed the hopes of people who were thinking that health facilities would improve after a doctor became CM. Health facilities are pathetic in Chhattisgarh,” Babbar said in a press conference here.
“A doctor CM has pushed the state’s health services into the ICU during his 15-year rule,” Babbar alleged.
He said the Raman Singh government had failed to build a single hospital in Bastar region for security forces getting injured in anti-Naxal operations.
These injured jawans have to be airlifted to Raipur or require admission in private medical facilities, he added.