Jogi won’t fight C’garh poll, to canvass only

Raipur, October 19

Former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi will not contest the next month’s Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh and instead focus on campaigning, his party said on Friday.

Jogi is the chief ministerial candidate of the “grand alliance” between his Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J) and the BSP and Communist Party of India (CPI). He had earlier announced that he would stand against CM Raman Singh from Rajanandgaon.

JCC (J) general secretary Abdul Hamid Hayat said Jogi would not contest the poll himself. Senior leaders of JCC (J), BSP and CPI held a discussion Friday and decided that Jogi will need to concentrate on campaigning across the 90 Assembly seats, especially the 12 seats in Bastar division which will go to the poll in the first phase on November 12, he said. — PTI