Three Naxals gunned down by security forces in Chhattisgarh

Three Naxals were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh on Saturday, police said.

The skirmish took place around 9.30 am in the forest near Madpal village under Mirtur police station limits when a team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) was out on an anti-Naxal operation, Bijapur Superintendent of Police, Mohit Garg told PTI.

“After getting the information that a group of Naxals was holding a meeting to chalk out strategies to disrupt the next month’s assembly elections, a squad of DRG was dispatched to the area,” he said.

After spotting the security forces near Madpal, located around 450 km away from capital Raipur, the ultras opened fire on them that led to the gun-battle, Garg said.

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Congress ‘Sankalp Yatra’ in Chhattisgarh soon

The Congress will soon take out a bus tour named ‘ Sankalp Yatra’ across Chhattisgarh with the aim of showcasing the state unit’s unity.

The yatra aims at fanning the campaign against the state’s BJP government by presenting the alternative policy plank.

All senior Congress leaders of the state are expected to join the yatra, which is expected to be flagged of by party president Rahul Gandhi. He will also join the yatra at several places, party sources said.

“The logistics for the Congress Sankalp yatra across Chhattisgarh is being finalised. Congress president Rahul ji will specially visit the state to flag off the yatra”, said a senior party leader.

The details of the proposed yatra was finalised in a meeting Gandhi held with some senior PCC and AICC leaders in Delhi a couple of days ago where the overall election preparations of the state Congress was also reviewed.

The state Congress is likely to have an alliance with the Gondwana Loktantrick Party in a few seats.

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Attack on Congress workers in Chhattisgarh is political persecution: Rahul Gandhi

Declaring that “dictatorship has become a vocation” in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s regime, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Wednesday said people in Chhattisgarh will remember the attack on his party’s workers in Bilaspur as an act of “political persecution”.

Taking to Twitter a day after police beat up protesting Congress workers in the Chhattisgarh town, leaving several injured, the Congress president trained his guns on the BJP-led Raman Singh government in the state and also tagged a video of the incident.

“In Narendra Modi’s regime, dictatorship has become a vocation. The cowardly manner in which the fundamental rights of Congress workers in Bilaspur were attacked by the Raman Singh government will be remembered by the people there as political persecution,” he said on Twitter in Hindi.

At least seven Congress workers were injured on Tuesday when police beat them with sticks in Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur city after they allegedly threw garbage inside a minister’s house. The opposition party claimed its workers were carrying out a peaceful protest against Urban Administration Minister Amar Agrawal but were brutally beaten up by police.

Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Neeraj Chandrakar claimed Congress workers threw garbage inside the minister’s house and also roughed up a policewoman and some male constables, following which a case was registered against them.

The protesters then went to the district Congress office and staged a sit-in, the police officer said.

When police tried to arrest them, Congress workers again got into a scuffle with police so “mild force” was used to arrest the workers against whom the case had been lodged, Chandrakar said.

At least 52 Congress workers were arrested and seven of them sustained injuries in the process

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BJP planning to field MPs in Chhattisgarh Assembly elections?

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is determined to make it four out of four in Chhattisgarh in the upcoming Assembly elections and if reports are to be believed, the ruling party could even field MPs in the state election. According to a report in Naidunia, the saffron party is considering candidature of five MPs for the upcoming polls and they include Ramesh Bais (Raipur), Saroj Pandey (Rajya Sabha), Lakhan Lal Sahu (Bilaspur), Kamalbhan Singh (Sarguja) and Abhishek Singh (Rajnandgaon). Citing sources, the report said Bais could be fielded from Raipur City Grameen while Pandey could get a ticket from Durg. Pandey, also the BJP’s national general secretary, has reportedly not declined to contest the Assembly elections. When asked whether she would contest from Durg MLA Arun Vora, Pandey said she has always stood by what her party has decided and there would be no exception in future either, the report added. The BJP is looking for a strong leader in Durg after the death of senior leader Hemchand Yadav in April and Pandey could be its find.

Similarly, the BJP may field Sahu from Mungeli, Kamalbhan from Ambikapur and Abhishek from Kawardha constituencies, the report added. Of these three, Mungeli and Kawardha have BJP MLAs while Ambikapur has a Congress representative. The BJP is cautious this year to replace its weaker MLAs and replace them with strong faces, even if they are MPs. The BJP is in power in the central Indian state, which was carved out of Madhya Pradesh in 2000, since 2003.

The party has embarked on Mission 65 plus in Chhattisgarh this year, a figure which they are yet to touch in their decade-and-a-half rule in the state.