Ahead of the crucial vote count of urban bodies scheduled in Chhattisgarh for Sunday, Congress legislative Party leader TS Singhdeo claimed on Friday that his party was poised to register victory in Durg, Raipur, Dhamtari and Ambikapur municipal corporations.
Speaking to the media after concluding State level working meeting, Singhdeo said that the results could go either way in Bilaspur, Korba and Jagdalpur as party faced certain level of rebellion there, adding that ClP will take action against rebel candidates or even workers who did not back Congress’ official candidates.
He stated that party has directed its block and district level office-bearers to reach consensus candidates for Panch, Sarpanch, Janpad and Zila Panchayat members in consultation with local party legislators, parliamentarians, MlA or MP candidates. The polls for a three-tier panchayat bodies will be held in January and February.
Singhdeo announced that party workers would begin seeking financial assistance from January 5 for the proposed Congress bhawan which has to be built up in posh Shankar Nagar locality in Raipur. Speaking about misuse of abuse of administrative machinery by the BJP Government during the recently held urban body elections, Singhdeo pointed out that four officials of the CM security stayed back in Surguja till December 29 evening even when CM was camping elsewhere.
State Congress working committee meeting was attended by party leaders Bodhram Kanwar, Ghanaram Sahu, PR Khunte, Badruddin Qureishi, Ramgopal Agrawal, Shailesh Nitin Trivedi, Pratima Chandrakar, Ramesh Warlyani, Dr Prem Sai Singh, Chhaya Verma, Mahendra Chhabra, Sushil Anand Shukla, Deepak Dubey, Nandini Sahu, Santosh Dubey, Shiv Singh Thakur, Inderchand Dhariwal and Ganga Potai among others.