The Congress had never imagined to register a two-third victory in Chhattisgarh in a three-way fight for the 90-member State Assembly but it brought curtain down on 15-year-old BJP regime largely because of State party president Bhupesh Baghel who never gave up fight against the dominant BJP Government.
The powerful OBC community leader Baghel who was appointed Pradesh Congress Committee chief roughly five years ago, displayed tremendous fighting ability and restored confidence among thousands of Congress cadres that the BJP Government could be defeated.
Baghel was always in centre stage of the BJP’s attack for challenging its might and even he was jailed recently in a politically motivated chargesheet filed by the country’s premier investigating agency CBI for his alleged role in circulation of a sleaze CD against a powerful Minister Rajesh Munat, a key loyalist of the outgoing Chief Minister Raman Singh.
The race for the Chief Ministerial candidate in Chhattisgarh is wide open and at least four leaders have started intense lobbying but there is a buzz in a political circle in the State that Baghel deserves to be the next Chief Minister.
