Team News Riveting
Raipur, June 15
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel ruled out the sway of third front in the year-end assembly election in the state and asserted that the contest would be bipolar.
There is no presence and influence of third force in Chhattisgarh, Baghel told reporters on Friday. The contest in the election had been bipolar; largely between the Congress and the BJP, he added.
Baghel quipped that even the Congress party is desperately waiting for the BJP’s chief minister face for the assembly elections. “In Chhattisgarh, its Om Mathur (BJP Chhattisgarh in-charge) at the helm of affairs,” Baghel said, adding that in 2018, the BJP lost the election and this year also, it was going to face humiliating defeat.
The BJP has already admitted defeat in Chhattisgarh and is making last attempt to push central ministers and leaders in the state, the Chief Minister said.
Responding to a question over conversion, Baghel said: “I do not know what changes are taking place in the conversion law in Karnataka. The law of Madhya Pradesh is being followed in Chhattisgarh.”
In 2006, a bill on religious conversion was introduced by the Raman Singh government, which is pending with the President. “BJP only misleads on such issues. If BJP has to make any law, then introduce it from the center and get it implemented in all the states,” Baghel added.
