The tension in the Congress over selection of candidates for Chhattisgarh state civic body election can be gauged from the fact that even Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel sat whole night on Wednesday and again on Thursday for finalisation of the list.

The Congress party ticket aspirants even threatened suicide, if not given party ticket leading to beefing up of security at Congress state headquarters Rajiv Bhavan on Thursday.

According to party sources, since last two days, Chief Minister, AICC general secretary and state in-charge P L Punia, state Congress party president Mohan Markam, cabinet ministers and other senior leaders had a marathon parleys for finalisation of tickets that started on Wednesday morning and continued till the wee hours of Thursday.

Baghel held discussion for two-three hours with leaders during afternoon hours but reached the party headquarters during evening hours and stayed for whole night. Party sources said, Chief Minister returned at around 3.45 AM. Later he arrived again on Thursday. The party then released the list of candidates for various civic bodies during evening hours. December 6 is the last date for filing of nomination papers.

Meanwhile, due to heavy rush of ticket aspirants, the gates of party headquarters was closed. Many of the  aspirants have been adopting different means to thwart the ticket aspiration of their rivals. One such instance was poster claiming that a       particular candidate has been close to former BJP minister.