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Gearing up for the next year’s assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has appointed Arun Sao, Member of Parliament from Bilaspur, as the new state president of Chhattisgarh.

The BJP on Thursday organised rallies across 12 assembly constituencies of tribal Bastar division in Chhattisgarh to protest the spate of "targeted and well-planned" killings of local BJP leaders.

The BJP's newly-elected 54 MLAs in Chhattisgarh will hold a key meeting on Sunday to select the legislative party leader, ending speculation on the next chief minister. The party's three observers and other senior leaders will be present. There is no set formula for electing the chief minister, as it follows the BJP's parliamentary board system. The BJP is confident of sweeping the 2024 parliamentary elections in Chhattisgarh after its historic win in the assembly polls. Potential chief minister candidates include tribal leaders and OBC politicians.

chhattisgarh bjp president, Dharamlal Kaushik, was on Sunday unanimously elected to lead the state unit for the second consecutive term.

chhattisgarh bjp in-charge Om Mathur said that the party might field more new faces in the assembly elections, pointing out that BJP had "changed 30%-40% of candidates in the last five elections and it worked".

Kiran Singh Deo, the MLA from Jagdalpur, has been appointed as the chhattisgarh bjp president, succeeding Arun Sao. Deo, a grassroots leader and member of the erstwhile 'zamindar' family of Sukma, has been actively involved in the party's organizational activities for decades. He won his first assembly poll ticket in the 2023 elections and secured victory with over 30,000 votes. The Bastar region, where Deo represents the lone unreserved seat, played a crucial role in the formation of the state government. Deo has held several key posts in the party in the past 25 years.

A day after the opposition BJP mobilised a massive crowd of beneficiaries, ‘deprived’ of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) by the Chhattisgarh government, to gherao the state assembly, senior opposition leaders on Thursday accused the police of "attemptin murder" on their party colleagues by hurling tear gas shells at the crowd.

The BJP central observers- Union Minister of Tribal Affairs; Sarbananda Sonowal, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways; and Dushyant Kumar Gautam, National General Secretary – will be arriving in Raipur on Sunday morning to oversee the legislative party meeting, said chhattisgarh bjp president Arun Sao on Saturday.

chhattisgarh bjp leaders heading towards curfew-clamped Kawardha were restricted from proceeding due to Section 144 of CrPC on Wednesday evening. BJP staged a demonstration protesting against constraint and later returned to Raipur.

Ahead of the next year’s assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, two former MLAs and other leaders from the ruling Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Janta Congress Chhattisgarh-Jogi (JCC-J) joined BJP on Tuesday.

The semi-clad body of a BJP Mahila Morcha district vice-president was found inside a government school in Chhattisgarh’s Baloda Bazaar district on Saturday.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has leveled serious accusations against the Congress-led government, highlighting the dismal state of roads in the state.

As the 100th episode of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ is set to be aired on Sunday, after its inception on October 3, 2014, chhattisgarh bjp plans to add over 10 lakh people to the programme by organizing different events at more than 10,000 places in the state, to mark the major contribute to this historic episode.

RSS pracharak and BJP's national joint general secretary Saudan Singh also put his foot down against any political adventure which may inadvertently associate the party with the former chief minister in the public eye, said party sources.

chhattisgarh bjp President Kiran Deo has called for direct flights between Raipur and Ayodhya. During his recent visit to Delhi, he met with Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia to discuss the matter and to push for the establishment of air services connecting the two cities.

Security has been tightened around BJP’s Bijapur MLA, Mahesh Ghagra, following an anonymous “death threat” received by him over the phone last week.

RAIPUR: The Chhattisgarh election committee of the BJP, at its second meeting here in a week, has recommended former Union minister Dilip Singh Judeo as party nominee from the Mahasamund constitutency.

Banshidhar Gupta, who was a member of the Narayanpur Janpad Panchayat, was axed to death by the Maoists.

RAIPUR: Encouraged by prompt EC action against the Chhattisgarh government on complaints made by them, the Opposition here is waiting for the three-member Commission team, led by Chief Election Commissioner J M Lyngdoh, with bated breath.

NIA has arrested another suspect in the assassination of chhattisgarh bjp MLA Bhima Mandavi and four policemen in Bastar last year. This is the fourth arrest within a week.

In the wake of the knife attack on Congress MLA Chaini Sahu, chhattisgarh bjp president Arun Sao has launched a scathing verbal attack against both the state government and the Congress party.

chhattisgarh bjp on Friday appointed six new spokespersons extending the list of spokespersons in the state from six to twelve.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will make a statement in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday on the cash-on-camera scam allegedly involving chhattisgarh bjp leader Dilip Singh Judeo.