The Congress party is gearing up to declare its first list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls in Chhattisgarh within a couple of days.
“The first list of candidates is almost finalised and the party high command could declare the names at any moment”, said Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee (CGPCC) President Bhupesh Baghel.
Addressing a Press conference here at Rajiv Bhawan, he informed that a series of meetings were held in New Delhi by the party’s Screening Committee for the State which after short listing candidates had almost finalised the first list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls.
We are prepared to contest the polls and all the necessary preparations have been made, he said.
Talking about poll issues, Baghel said there was no dearth of issues and performing the duty of sensible opposition the party has cornered the government several times. In several occasions the government had to take back its decision, he said.
We are reaching out to the state’s population while demanding blessings from them in upcoming polls and are getting good response from them, Baghel said.
Regarding election manifesto of Congress party, the CGPCC Chief said that this time BJP would not be able to copy it as they are going to include those work which the government had not done in past 15 years.