Chhattisgarh Assembly Election 2018: Ghanaram Sahu, state Congress vice-president resigns, hours before first phase polling

As the firsty phase of Chhattisgarh election goes to poll, the Congress is dealing with a blow as Ghanaram Sahu, state vice-president, has resgined.

Sahu sighted the role and his responsibility in the election and said that, being an office member, he should have been given a major role to play in the election but instead, he was sidelined.

In his resignation letter, Sahu wrote that he was being "mentally harassed" by the Congress party president of the state Bhupesh Baghel. He said, "Although I am a Congress officebearer, I was not given a role to play in various activities organised before the election... I have always been a dedicated member of the party, but everything has a limit. As the state Congress chief has been trying to drive me out of the party for some time now, I have decided to resign as state vice-president and give up its primary membership."

The jolt to the Congress party just before the election has not gone in a fruitful way, and earlier, it was Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee working president Ram Dayal, who resigned fro the party and had joined the BJP on October 13.

The Congress party had lost its alliance partner Mayawati, who had alligned with former Congress party leader and former CM Ajit Jogi, who had announced that BSP's Mayawati would be the PM and he would be the CM face in the upcoming election.

The voting for the 18 constituencies have begu in Chhattisgarh, in the first phase of polling and the second phase, with 72 constituencies, will vote on November 20.

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