Chhattisgarh Assembly election: Who will be CM if Congress is elected to power? TS Singhdeo reveals

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we win," Deputy CM T S Singhdeo told PTI in an interview. There have been reports signaling a rift between TS Singh Deo and Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel during the tenure of the government in the last five years. Rejecting such reports, TS Singhdeo clarified that there was no such difference between the two of them.

Comparing his party with a family, he said that every family has issues that are resolved by members on their own. “Bhupesh Baghel and I saw a period of 'great pressure' amid media talk of split tenure of CM but never let it affect governance" he added. Tribhuvaneshwar Saran Singhdeo has been fielded again from the Ambikapur constituency.

He said that Baghel and he experienced a period of "great pressure" from their respective supporters amid the media talk of two-and-a-half years of split tenure of chief ministership. Still, they never let that affect governance in any way. He expressed confidence in his party's victory in the state and said that he would be disappointed if the Congress does not get a two-thirds majority in the assembly polls on the back of a slew of welfare measures in just five years.

In his interview, TS Singhdeo clarified that if the party comes back to power, the final decision on the appointment of chief minister and deputy chief minister would be made by the high command. The septuagenarian minister slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for targeting Congress for corruption in Chhattisgarh. He expressed his grief over the involvement of the highest level of elected governance in making such allegations.