Chhattisgarh Elections 2018: Amit Shah, Rahul Gandhi to hold rallies in Chhattisgarh on last day of the first phase poll campaigning

The Bhartiya Janta Party chief Amit Shah and Congress president Rahul Gandhi will host rallies in Chhattisgarh today, the last day for campaigning for the first phase if Assembly polls, that scheduled to be held on November 12.

On the last day of campaigning, the BJP party chief will address rallies along with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath seeking votes for their party and retain power in the state. Amit Shah will hold road shows in Raipur and Rajnandgaon. Meanwhile, Amit Shah will also release BJP manifesto in state capital Raipur today.

Rahul Gandhi will also hold public meetings in Kanker and Kondagaon districts. Later in the day, Congress president will have a meeting with booth-level workers at Jagdalpur.

To come in power in the state, Congress has made a number of promises to the people, including loan waiver for farmers, having the electricity tariff and providing 1 lakh jobs to the youth besides giving them unemployment allowance.

The polling in the BJP-led Chhattisgarh's 90 constituencies seats is scheduled to take place in 2 phase. The first phase will be on November 12 for 18 seats of eight Naxal-affected districts go to polls. Of these, 12 are Scheduled Tribe seats while one is a Scheduled Caste-reserved seat.

The second phase polling for the remaining 72 constituencies will witness polling on November 20 and counting of votes will be held on December 11.

In the 2013 Assembly polls, the BJP had won 49 seats, Congress 39, BSP 1 and Independent 1 in the 90-member House. The ruling BJP had lost 12 of the 18 seats in the 2013 Assembly polls.

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