NI Bureau
The Chhattisgarh Assembly election results have delivered a blow to the ruling Congress party, with nine of its ministers, including Deputy Chief Minister T S Singh Deo, losing their seats on Sunday when the results were announced. Deo, in particular, suffered a defeat by 92 votes to BJP’s Rajesh Agarwal. Notably, in this term’s assembly elections, several leaders from the BJP have staged a comeback, with the surprise victory of Ishwar Sahu, a simple farmer fielded by the saffron party as a ‘symbol of justice’ after his son was killed in a communal incident in Bemetara district this year. Sahu surprisingly defeated the seven-time MLA and minister Ravindra Choubey.
