Raipur, November 14, 2008: Voting in 39 seats started today, which will most likely decide the fate of the Raman Singh government in Chhattisgarh on many accounts.
In fact, ruling BJP had denied tickets to 15 of its sitting MLAs from those 39 seats, spread over Mahasamund, Dhamtari, Kanker, Bastar, Dantewada, Bijapur, Narayanpur, Durg, Rajnandgaon and Kawardha districts.
It would also decide the fate of the current BJP government as out of 39 seats, BJP was in 28 constituencies, including one by Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh himself and the rest by Congress, including Leader of Opposition Mahendra Karma and Deputy Opposition Leader Bhupesh Baghel.
Seat wise, out of 39 seats, 21 are general seats where as 14 seats have been reserved for ST and the rest four for SC, Joint Chief Electoral Officer Gaurav Dwivedi told ChhattisgarhTopNews.Com.
When the entire Bastar region would go for poll from 7.00 AM to 3.00PM in rest of the places it is 8.00AM to 5.00 PM for which elaborate security arrangements have been made, Dwivedi said.
Including Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh, the first phase votes will decide the fates of Speaker Prem Prakash Pandey, Ministers Ajay Chandrakar, Hemchand Yadav, Leader of Opposition Karma, Deputy Opposition Leader Baghel, senior Congress leaders Ravindra Choubey, Dharamjeet Singh and Mohammed Akbar.
The second phase poll would be held on November 20 where as counting will takes place on December 8 for all the segments.
The election process has to be completed by December 13, he said.
List of 39 Assembly Constituencies going to poll in Phase-I
No. and Name of AC Type District
39-Saraipali SC Mahasamund
40-Basna GEN Mahasamund
41-Khallari GEN Mahasamund
42-Mahasamund GEN Mahasamund
56- Sihawa ST Dhamtari
57- Kurud GEN Dhamtari
58- Dhamtari GEN Dhamtari
59 – Sanjari Balod GEN Durg
60 – Dondi Lohara ST Durg
61 – Gunderdehi GEN Durg
62 – Patan GEN Durg
63 – Durg Rural GEN Durg
64 – Durg City GEN Durg
65 – Bhilai Nagar GEN Durg
66 – Vaishali Nagar GEN Durg
67 – Ahiwara SC Durg
68 – Saja GEN Durg
69 – Bemetara GEN Durg
70 – Nawagarh SC Durg
71- Pandariya GEN Kabirdham
72- Kawardha GEN Kabirdham
73- Khairagarh GEN Rajnandgaon
74-Dongargarh SC Rajnandgaon
75-Rajnandgaon GEN Rajnandgaon
76-Dongargaon GEN Rajnandgaon
77-Khujji GEN Rajnandgaon
78- Mohla Manpur ST Rajnandgaon
79- Antagarh ST Uttar Bastar Kanker
80- Bhanupratappur ST Uttar Bastar Kanker
81- Kanker ST Uttar Bastar Kanker
82- Keshkal ST Bastar
83- Kondagaon ST Bastar
84- Narayanpur ST Narayanpur
85-Bastar ST Bastar
86- Jagdalpur GEN Bastar
87-Chitrakot ST Bastar
88-Dantewada ST Dakshin Bastar Dantewada
89-Bijapur ST Bijapur
90-Konta ST Dakshin Bastar Dantewada.
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