Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha election 2024: Former Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel to take on BJP's Santosh Pandey
India TV NewsRajnandgaon Lok Sabha election 2024: Named in the Congress’s first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections 2024, its former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, who was expected to re-deliver Chhattisgarh to the party in last year’s Assembly polls but failed, is now staring at an uphill task. The party has fielded Baghel from the Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha seat, a Bharatiya Janata Party bastion for over three decades, and seen as the turf of its former three-time CM Raman Singh. Congress' Bhupesh Baghel to contest in LS polls from Rajnandgaon Bhupesh Baghel thanks Congress high command for fielding him in Lok Sabha polls. Following the announcement of his candidature for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Congress leader and former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel thanked the party's high command and said that the fielded candidates would live up to the trust shown by the party.