Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended hearty wishes and greetings to people of Chhattisgarh on State Foundation Day on Sunday, a statement of Chhattisgarh Government informed.
``Modi praised natural beauty of Chhattisgarh and said that it is a state of wonderful people’’ the statement added. Prime Minister stated in his twitter post that Chhattisgarh's progress is noteworthy.
Chhattisgarh was created as the 26th state of the country on November 1, in year 2000 with a split of Madhya Pradesh. Congress had formed the first Government in the state but the party lost state’s maiden assembly polls to the BJP in 2003 and since then the saffron party is in power.