Chhattisgarh : More than 50 MLAs met General Secretary KC Venugopal, many said – no need for change of leadership
The matter of crisis in the Chhattisgarh State Congress is increasing the trouble of the party high command. More than 50 MLAs of the state met party general secretary KC Venugopal on Friday on the leadership issue. Most of the MLAs have reached Delhi to show their support for the current CM Bhupesh Baghel. In this crisis of Chhattisgarh, the state CM Bhupesh Baghel is facing the challenge of his own minister TS Singh Deo. Both Baghel and Singhdeo met Rahul Gandhi this week. Both the leaders had said that whatever decision the party high command takes, we will accept it.
Events so far regarding Chhattisgarh Congress crisis.
- Chhattisgarh Congress Vice President Atal Shrivastav said in a conversation with NDTV, ‘In the last two and a half years, the Bhupesh Baghel government has done a very good job, today more than two crore people of Chhattisgarh, farmers, tribal communities and people of other communities are with Bhupesh Baghel. .’
- He said, we want Bhupesh Baghel to be the Chief Minister for 5 years. The question of leadership change does not arise in two and a half years. This is not a mixed government of any two parties. The mandate was given to the Congress party. We want Bhupesh Baghel to remain the chief minister.
- Chhattisgarh cabinet minister Amarjit Bhagat in a conversation with NDTV accused Adani-Ambani of being behind this ‘crisis’. Bhagat said, ‘It is all a game of Adani and Ambani. The government is being disturbed by making it an issue in the media. Earlier efforts have been made in Jharkhand, in Madhya Pradesh and also in Rajasthan. Bhupesh Baghel is doing a good job. His government should last 5 years. There is no need for change in government in Chhattisgarh.
- Chhattisgarh Congress MLAs Prakash Nayak and Devendra Yadav also said that we have told state in-charge PL Punia that Bhupesh Baghel’s government is doing a good job in Chhattisgarh. There is no need for any kind of leadership change in Chhattisgarh government.
- A large number of Chhattisgarh Congress MLAs have reached the house of Congress’s Chhattisgarh in-charge PL Poonia. A meeting of MLAs took place here ahead of Rahul Gandhi’s meeting with the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh.
- Earlier, CM Bhupesh Baghel, who reached Delhi for a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, said in a conversation with NDTV, “I was called to Delhi by the top leadership. I have reached here.. Our government is safe. All 70 MLAs are united.”
- Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel is facing the challenge of his own minister TS Singhdeo. It has been two and a half years since Bhupesh Baghel’s government as CM in June, so Singhdeo and his supporters are pressurizing the party to change the chief minister.
- Supporters of TS Singhdev say that for two-and-a-half years, there was an agreement on the Chief Minister and now Singhdev should be made the Chief Minister. Singhdeo claims that he was promised that he would be made chief minister after half the term of Baghel.
- At the same time, sources close to CM Baghel say that there is no formula like making Chief Minister for two and a half years. He said that destabilizing the government at this time can be disastrous.
- The relationship between CM Baghel and Singhdev has not been smooth since the formation of the Congress government in Chhattisgarh in December 2018.
Recently, the differences increased when Congress MLA Brihaspati Singh accused Health Minister TS Singh Deo that he wanted to become the Chief Minister by getting him killed. Brihaspati Singh is considered close to Chief Minister Baghel.
