Five days after the Congress party swept the Chhattisgarh polls, State Congress chief Bhupesh Baghel has been named as the next Chief Minister. The formal announcement was made at Raipur at a meeting of the newly elected MLAs where he was elected leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP). "No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team– Reid Hoffman,"Mr. Gandhi tweeted on Saturday quoting the LinkedIn co-founder and posted a photo of Congress Team Chhattisgarh. Though both Mr. Singh Deo and Mr. Sahu were contenders for the top post, the Congress rewarded Mr. Baghel for steering the party through some very difficult times after a deadly Naxal attack in 2013 wiped out the entire Congress leadership in Chhattisgarh. Mr. Baghel is also learnt to have impressed upon the central leadership not to buckle under pressure from Congress veteran Ajit Jogi that eventually led to his (Jogi's) exit.

Source: The Hindu December 16, 2018 08:51 UTC