The Chhattisgarh Bharatiya Janata Party legislature Party has unanimously elected Chief Minister Raman Singh as its leader on Monday in the presence of party’s central observers M Venkaiah Naidu, JP Nadda and Dharmendra Pradhan.
The swearing-in ceremony of Singh for the third consecutive term as the Chief Minister of the mineral-rich state will be held at the Police Parade Ground here on December 12 at 11 am. Addressing the meeting after his election as the legislature Party leader, Raman Singh credited 2.5 crore people of the State for solidly backing him in polls and he announced: “Together we will fulfil the responsibility wholeheartedly the people of the State have given to all of us.”
Singh said, “Each and every line of the election manifesto of the party will be implemented in letter and spirit as people reposed their faith on us consecutively for the third time. All of us have to strive to live up to peoples’ expectations.’’ Giving the credit of victory to the central leadership as well as of the party cadres, Singh stated that the party in the state had solid guidance and back-up of national president Rajnath Singh and the entire top leadership of the party.”