{"id":306922,"date":"2018-12-12T10:05:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T10:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306922"},"modified":"2018-12-12T10:21:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T10:21:37","slug":"congress-to-announce-chhattisgarh-cm-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-to-announce-chhattisgarh-cm-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress to announce Chhattisgarh CM today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305000 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Rahul-Gandhi-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Rahul-Gandhi-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Rahul-Gandhi-768x456.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Rahul-Gandhi-1024x608.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Rahul-Gandhi-696x414.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Rahul-Gandhi-1068x635.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Rahul-Gandhi-707x420.jpg 707w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Rahul-Gandhi.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The newly elected Congress MLAs in Chhattisgarh will hold its legislature party meeting in Raipur on Wednesday to decide on the next chief minister of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The race for the Chief Minister&#8217;s post is primarily between Congress&#8217; Lok Sabha member Tamradhwaj Sahu, who successfully contested the Assembly election from Durg Rural seat, state party chief Bhupesh Baghel and senior leader TS Singh Deo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress registered a landslide victory in the Chhattisgarh polls, bringing an end to the 15-year rule of the Raman Singh-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress won 68 seats in the 90-member Assembly, while the BJP got only 15 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the reports, the Congress Legislature Party meeting will be held in the evening. All India Congress Committee observer Mallikarjun Kharge will preside over the meeting with all newly elected MLAs. Among others to attend the meeting will be Congress in-charge for the state, P.L. Punia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The announcement of the new chief minister will take place after the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly elected Congress MLAs in Chhattisgarh will hold its legislature party meeting in Raipur on Wednesday to decide on the next chief minister of the state. The race for the Chief Minister&#8217;s post is primarily between Congress&#8217; Lok Sabha member Tamradhwaj Sahu, who successfully contested the Assembly election from Durg Rural seat, state party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3642,2089,2014],"tags":[10248,453,8839,1508,1582,10250,10247,10249],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306925,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306922\/revisions\/306925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}