Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel spoke to Vinod Sharma in Bhopal, where he was campaigning for senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, about the Congress’s in his state, the impact polls there have on neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, and the development challenges facing his administration.
In the assembly elections, former CM Dr Raman Singh talked about Narendra Modiji’s bada chehra [big face]. But as the campaign progressed, Modi’s face got smaller and Raman Singh’s bigger on the BJP hoardings.
We defeated their leadership in the state and at the Centre by getting a three-fourths majority.
The 15-year-old BJP regime got reduced to 15 seats in the 90-member House. We’ll repeat the performance in the parliamentary polls - we will win all of the 11 Lok Sabha seats.