Chhattisgarh: Sai govt defeats no-confidence motion after 14-hrs debate

The BJP government led by Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai defeated the Congress's no-confidence motion in the Chhattisgarh assembly in the wee hours of Saturday, following a marathon 14-hour debate that witnessed intense clashes over governance, corruption, and law and order issues. As many as 17 legislators, including Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, participated in the debate, which began post noon on Friday and concluded shortly after 2.30 am on Saturday. The Congress opened the attack by tabling a 136-point chargesheet, alleging that the BJP government had failed farmers, tribals, youth and women during its two-and-a-half years in office. Replying to the debate, Sai dismissed the motion as “hollow, baseless and a political drama”. He remarked that if there were a PhD course in “lying and corruption”, Congress members would be specialists.
He further accused the Congress of using tribals as a vote bank during its decades in power at the Centre and in various states, claiming that it was the BJP that had given the community respect and representation. He also expressed confidence that the BJP will win more than 70 seats in the next assembly elections. He also credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and state security forces for driving Maoists out of Bastar, and said that his government was committed to the region’s development. Calling the motion “a bundle of falsehoods”, Sai said it was merely “political theatrics”

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Supporting the motion, former chief minister Bhupesh Baghel alleged that the state was being run by an “invisible force”, citing tree felling in the Hasdeo forest region a few days before the BJP assumed office in December 2023. Even today, no one knows who is actually running the government, he claimed, adding that even BJP workers do not know which minister, official or authority they should approach. “Naxals may be gone, but land mafias have entered. That is why people in Bastar are worried,” the Congress leader claimed.
The five-day monsoon session concluded with a voice vote defeating the motion, as the treasury benches fended off the Opposition party's 136-point chargesheet alleging the government's failures towards farmers, tribals, youth and women.