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BJP faces tough fight to retain Raigarh seat

PTI
Updated: April 9th, 2019, 12:18 IST
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Raigarh: Buoyed by its performance in the Chhattisgarh Assembly polls last year, the Congress is making a serious attempt to make a dent into BJP’s bastion of the Raigarh a Lok Sabha constituency which the saffron party has been winning for last two decades.

The seat, reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidates, is considered ‘safe’ for the BJP as its sitting MP and Union Minister Vishnu Deo Sai has been representing it since 1999, winning four times in a row.

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However, after facing a drubbing in the Assembly polls in Chhattisgarh, where it ruled for 15 years, the BJP has dropped all its sitting MPs in the state and given tickets to new faces for the upcoming c.

In this constituency, the BJP has fielded woman candidate, Gomtee Sai, against Congress’ Laljeet Singh Rathiya, who is the sitting MLA from Dharamjaigarh Assembly seat.

In the last year’s state polls, the Congress won all eight Assembly segments in the Raigarh constituency – Jashpur, Kunkuri and Patthalgaon (in Jashpur district), Lailunga, Dharamjaigarh, Sarangarh, Kharsiya and Raigarh (Raigarh district).

“The BJP is likely to struggle this time to match its previous performance in Raigarh. Being a lesser known leader, Gomtee Sai will face a tough challenge in the elections,” said a political analyst.

Though Rathiya, a two-term MLA, is also a low-profile leader, his political background could add to his advantage, the analyst pointed out. His father Chanesh Ram Rathiya was a seven-term MLA from seats in the region and served as a minister in the previous Madhya Pradesh Congress-led governments before Chhattisgarh state was formed.

According to a political observer, elephant menace, human-trafficking and displacement of tribals due to coal mining are some of the key issues faced by people in the constituency for last several years.

BJP leader and former Raigarh seat MLA Roshanlal Agrawal said voters in the Lok Sabha constituency will acknowledge the work done by his party.

“The development works done during the previous 15-year rule of Raman Singh in the state and by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Centre will definitely convince voters to choose the BJP candidate. Sai will continue the party’s winning streak in the seat,” Agrawal said confidently.

The Congress also seemed equally confident of wresting back the seat from the BJP. “We fulfilled our poll promises of farm loan waiver, high minimum support price for paddy procurement, and many more. People will show faith in us in the Lok Sabha polls because we have done what we promised,” said state Higher Education minister Umesh Patel, an MLA from Kharsiya seat.

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