{"id":478384,"date":"2023-06-28T12:59:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T07:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=478384"},"modified":"2023-06-28T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T07:29:44","slug":"congress-chhattisgarh-elections-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/congress-chhattisgarh-elections-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress gears itself for upcoming state elections, Kharge chairs Chhattisgarh Congress leaders meeting in Delhi, Rahul Gandhi, Bhupesh Baghel also present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congress party preparing itself early for the upcoming state elections chaired a meeting with the Chhattisgarh Congress leaders at the All India Congress Committee headquarters in Delhi today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting was chaired by party Chief Mallikarjun Kharge along with the presence of Rahul Gandhi, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, party General Secretary KC Venugopal and other senior leaders of the party in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Chhattisgarh Congress leaders&#39; meeting underway at the AICC office in Delhi  <br><br>Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi are present at the meeting. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LpdFpcOGm0\">pic.twitter.com\/LpdFpcOGm0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1673933086592241664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting comes months ahead of the Chhattisgarh assembly elections which is due to held likely at the end of this year. Reports claimed, the meeting aims to chalk out the strategies on how the election is to be fought in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The grand old party which marked a thumping victory in the Karnataka assembly elections winning 135 seats out of the 224 seats assembly last month is in all hopes to retain Chhattisgarh with a majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s meeting is being seen as an early step taken by the party to prepare itself from all the directions letting no mistake to happen bagging enough time to take decisions wisely as it would not have to regret later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The party which won all three states in the last held 2018 assembly elections in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh ousting the then ruling BJP governments is putting all efforts to repeat the same performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting also comes at a time when Congress became a part of the mega Opposition parties meet in Patna on June 23., convened by Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal(United) supremo Nitish Kumar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A meet which was attended by 17 like-minded opposition parties who came together to decide on the grand opposition alliance to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting witnessed the presence of a series of senior opposition leaders from across the country including Kharge, Gandhi, Lalu Yadav, Sharad Pawar, Mehbooba Mufti, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamamta Banerjee, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhillesh Yadav, leaders from the left among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting was chaired by party Chief Mallikarjun Kharge along with the presence of Rahul Gandhi, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, party General Secretary KC Venugopal and other senior leaders of the party in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":478387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,125714],"tags":[61622,86,59528,3102,111,805,110],"yst_prominent_words":[4101,21895,4360,20926,3811,3813,4017,6035,3814,63564,4423,4560,3688,3893,4091,4023,16502,13036,21018],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/06\/28125817\/RAHUL-KHARGE.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478384"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=478384"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=478384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->