Chandigarh CM to meet Congress high command amid rivarly with Deo

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and his cabinet colleague and rival T S Singh Deo will meet the Congress high command here on Sunday amid the continuing turf war between the two.

Baghel is likely to raise with the Congress leadership the issue of his differences Deo, who he alleges has given the BJP a handle to attack the party, sources said. Deo had recently tendered his resignation as Panchayat minister, saying no funds were made available to his department and hence no work could be undertaken on the PM Awas Yojna to provide houses to the poor.

Baghel is already in Delhi, while Deo, who was in Bhopal, left for Delhi on Saturday and will be seeking a meeting with the top Congress leaders, sources close to him said. The development suggested that the tussle between the two Congress leaders was intensifying with Assembly elections more than a year away. The rivalry between the two came to the fore briefly in June 2021 after Baghel completed half term as CM.

Deo's supporters claimed that as per an understanding reached in 2018, he was supposed to take over after Baghel completed half of his term.

While Deo later backed down after both the leaders visited Delhi and met the party high command, recently he voiced opposition to coal mine projects in the Hasdeo Arand forest area, and hinted that the truce was over.

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