Who will take charge of Chhattisgarh,  BJP MLAs meeting tomorrow, Suspense may end on CM After Tomorrow Meeting.

A meeting of BJP MLAs is going to be held on Sunday to finalize the charge of Chhattisgarh. It is likely to elect the leader of the legislative party. The BJP party observers will also be present in the meeting.

The ‘suspense’ over the post of Chief Minister in Chhattisgarh is likely to end on Sunday.  A meeting of  54  newly-elected BJP MLAs will be held on Sunday to elect their leader. Who will be the Chief Minister after the meeting? It can be decided. The BJP had not announced its chief ministerial candidate before the assembly polls last month. BJP state president Arun Sao said that “the BJP legislature party meeting will be held on Sunday”. Three party observers Union Ministers Arjun Munda and Sarbananda Sonowal and party General Secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam will be present at the meeting.

BJP state president Arun Sao said the party’s Chhattisgarh in-charge Om Mathur, Union minister Mansukh Mandaviya, and party’s co-incharge for the state Nitin Nabin would also be present there. The BJP won 54  seats in the  90-member  Chhattisgarh assembly. The Congress, which won 68  seats in 2018,  has been reduced to 35 seats. The Gondwana Gantantra Party (GGP) managed to win one seat.

It is being speculated that if the BJP does not choose Raman Singh, a three-time chief minister from  2003 to 2018, it will choose an OBC or tribal chief minister. Former Union minister Vishnu Deo Sai, who hails from a tribal community, Renuka Singh,  who resigned as a Union minister after being elected as an MLA, former state ministers Ramvichar Netam and Lata Usendi, and Gomati Sai, who resigned as an MP after being elected to the assembly, are among the contenders.

The tribal community accounts for  32 percent of the state’s population and the BJP won  17 of the 29  seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes  (STs)  this time. The BJP had won only three seats in the reserved seat for tribals in  2018. It has won all 14 seats in the tribal-dominated Surguja division this time.

The Congress had won all the  14  seats in the division in 2018. Vishnudev  Sai, Renuka Singh, Ramvichar Netam, and Gomti Sai belong to this division. State president Sao, who resigned as an MP after being elected as MLA, and bureaucrat-turned-politician O P Chaudhary are both from Other Backward Classes and are among the contenders for the chief minister’s post. Sao belongs to the influential Sahu (Teli) community that has a large presence in the Durg, Raipur, and Bilaspur divisions. OBCs account for nearly 45 percent of the state’s population.