{"id":49843,"date":"2018-12-12T10:55:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T10:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=49843"},"modified":"2018-12-12T10:55:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T10:55:42","slug":"congress-to-pick-chhattisgarh-cm-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/congress-to-pick-chhattisgarh-cm-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress to pick Chhattisgarh CM on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress in Chhattisgarh will hold its legislature party meeting in Raipur on Wednesday to decide on the next chief minister of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Congress\u2019 Lok Sabha member Tamradhwaj Sahu, who successfully contested the Assembly election from Durg Rural seat, state party chief Bhupesh Baghel and senior leader T S Singhdeo are front-runners for the top post.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress registered a landslide victory in the Chhattisgarh polls, bringing an end to the 15-year rule of the Raman Singh-led Bharatiya Janata Party government. It won 68 seats in the 90-member Assembly, while the BJP got only 15 seats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Congress Legislature Party meeting will be held at 8 pm. All India Congress Committee\u2019s observer Mallikarjun Kharge, AICC in-charge for the state P L Punia and other senior leaders will be present there,\u201d state party unit\u2019s general secretary Shailesh Nitin Trivedi .<\/p>\n<p>Former chief minister Ajit Jogi-led Janata Congress Chhattisgarh won five seats and his ally Bahujan Samaj Party bagged two seats.<\/p>\n<p>A party needs to win 46 seats to form government in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress in Chhattisgarh will hold its legislature party meeting in Raipur on Wednesday to decide on the next chief minister of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49845,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49843\/revisions\/49845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}