Election Commission of India (ECI) has recognized Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (JCC) Jogi (J) as a regional political party of the State.
With ECI’s decision, the party has now has secured its election symbol farmer ploughing the field for the state assembly elections.
As per information, the recognition has been given to it for getting more than 14% of vote share in the recently held assembly polls.
Commenting on the achievement, party Supremo Ajit Jogi said that it was a big achievement for him and the people of Chhattisgarh.
“Elections are being held since 1936 from the undivided Madhya Pradesh and Late Khoobchand Baghel (1970-80), Late Vidyacharan Shukla (2003-12) and Tarachand Sahu (2008-12) made their all possible effort for getting recognized their regional parties but all the three failed”,
he said.
With the blessings of the people of the State and hard work of party workers, we succeeded in winning five of the assembly seats in the 90 member assembly, Jogi said.
With the alliance we made got 14% vote share in the elections and for the first time in the history of the state after 82 years any regional party had been recognized by the Election Commission of India, Jogi said.