Renu joins husband’s party, files nomination
RAIPUR: A day after the Congress denied Dr Renu Jogi, wife of Janta Chhattisgarh Congress (JCC) chief Ajit Jogi, a party ticket, she joined the JCC and filed her nomination for the Kota Assembly constituency.
After the Congress put out its fifth and final list of candidates on Thursday, in which it selected a retired police officer for Kota, a seat represented by Renu Jogi for the last three times consecutively, she expressed her sentiments with former Congress president Sonia Gandhi citing that the party’s decision was “unexpected”.
Renu wrote to Sonia Gandhi narrating her family’s over three-decade-old relationship and how she has been consistently ignored and humiliated by the state party leadership ever since she has been ousted from the post of party vice-president.
Kota seat has traditionally been the Congress stronghold and the Jogi family takes credit for it.
Congress workers vandalise party office in Bilaspur
RAIPUR/BILASPUR: Supporters of a Congress leader allegedly ransacked the party’s offices in Raipur and Bilaspur districts on Thursday alleging unfair distribution of tickets for the upcoming Assembly polls.
The party, however, chose to play down the incidents calling them “minor protests”, and claimed that there was no discontent among the party workers. According to the party leader, they allegedly broke chairs, window panes and flower pots and tried to storm inside the office room of AICC state in charge PL Punia.
No action against erring chit fund companies in Chhattisgarh: Congress
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Thursday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state against as many as 161 chit fund companies that are accused of duping investors to the tune of Rs 5,000 crore.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala alleged that these firms were being shielded by the BJP. Over 310 FIRs have been filed against these companies but no action has been taken so far, he added.
Chit fund companies that were banned were also allowed to operate in the state, Surjewala went on to say.