A guard of honour was on Wednesday given to the 26 Central Reserve Police Force jawans who were killed in a Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh's Naryanpur district.
"It happens in a crowd, and the old and women face difficulties," Singh told reporters in Raipur when his attention was drawn to reports of police kicking an aged man on his face and caning villagers in Ajaib Nagar, 525 km from Raipur.
Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayiba could be assisting Maoists in carrying out attacks that have killed troops of the Central Reserve Police Force, the state police force and innocent civilians, said Chattigarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Wednesday.
Opposition parties on Monday slammed the government for ignoring the interests of farmers and said funds allocated in the General Budget for agriculture ministry were not sufficient.
The meeting is being held purportedly to discuss ways and means of raising the issues of Hinduism and the Ram Temple at Ayodhya in the coming weeks.
Chief ministers of five mineral-rich states, including Chhattisgarh, will meet Home Minister Shivraj Patil in New Delhi tomorrow to demand rejection of the recommendations of the Hooda Committee on mining.
The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress remain the most dominant political forces in Chhattisgarh, though the state has several regional outfits that have pockets of influence, while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is making a determined bid to challenge its well entrenched rivals and make a mark in polls to the 90-member House.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday night condemned the Naxal strike in Chhattisgarh in which 13 CRPF peronnel were killed and said words are not enough to deplore the "brutal" and "inhuman" attack by "anti-national elements."
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Heart burn over ticket distributions may singe ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's hands in forming the next government in Chhattisgarh even as the party basks in the glory of the 'gentleman' image of its Chief Minister Raman Singh.In a veiled admission of the damage potential of the party rebels, National Vice President of the BJP and Lok Sabha Member of Parliament from Jangir in the state Karuna Shukla told PTI, "Rebels damage all political parties."
When the MPV carrying six personnel was around one km away from the camp, ultras triggered a powerful land mine blast, he said.
Estimates of what the Maoists extract from their nationwide extortion vary from Rs 1,200 crore a year to Rs 2,000 crore.
He said he would possibly go to Sukma on Wednesday.
The former Madhya Pradesh chief minister is hoping for a return to power...in Chhattisgarh this time... Illustration: Uttam Ghosh.
The party also promised to would provide salt at 25 paise per kg to BPL families, state unit president Raghuvar Das said while releasing the manifesto in the presence of Chhatisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh. Construction of three lakh houses to be allotted to those not having accommodation and ration cards to every family within three months was also among the promises held out.
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"The future of about 40,000 students is hanging in balance due to a wrong step taken by the previous government. After going through the Supreme Court order, we will do the best possible thing to save their future," Singh said.
Though the bill providing 33 per cent reservation to women in Parliament and state assemblies is yet to get nod from major political parties, Chhattisgarh polls show that reservation to women in Bharatiya Janata Party cadre has led to more women getting the party ticket.
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Chan Chowdhry, the industrialist who owns an engineering firm in London, made the announcement at a meeting of investors convened by Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh in Raipur on Wednesday night.
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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has ordered magisterial probe into the incident and has directed the Durg collector Subrat Sahu in this regard, they said.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and Agriculture Minister Nanki Ram Kanwar had a providential escape in Korba district as a speeding train came on to the tracks as their convoy was about to cross the railway level crossing.
Seven Pakistani companies on Sunday signed memoranda of understanding worth $102 million with two Chhattisgarh-based steel companies.
The Chhattisgarh government will take up reconstruction of houses and provide basic needs, like hospital, school and community centres, in the villages it proposes to adopt, Chief Minister Raman Singh said.
The party decision means that Union minister Vishnu Deo Sai and seven times Lok Sabha member and former Union minister Ramesh Bais will not be fielded in the polls.
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He challenged the Congress to select someone 'capable' as its president, who did not belong to 'that one family'.
Chhattisgarh government on Monday decided to ban Naxalite organisations in the state, 2 days after a landmine blast triggered by them, left 23 security personnel dead.
In the wake of Saturday's attack on security forces, the state considers a ban on naxal outfits
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'Be it Shivraj Singh Chouhan or Raman Singh or Vasundhara Raje --- all of them would have won as it is. These are all leaders who would have won on their own. But the victory margins have been enriched by Modiji's campaign.'
Top Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have been engaged in consultations with each other over the post-poll situation in the wake of exit polls projections that the party-led National Democratic Alliance may form the government.
While sixteen bodies have been recovered, seven are still trapped in the anti-landmine vehicle.
Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd on Monday signed a MoU with the Chhattisgarh government to set up a Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion), 1,200 MW coal-based power project in the state.
BJP general secretary Arun Singh said that during the course of the meet, discussions will be held on farm laws, Aatmanirbhar Bharat and upcoming state polls.
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Launching a blistering attack on Raman Singh-led Bharatiya Janata Party government in Chhattisgarh over law and order situation, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday reminded people of the May 25 Maoist ambush in Bastar that had wiped out almost the entire Congress leadership.
