As the Assembly election results placed the BJP far ahead of the Congress in Chhattisgarh, the buzz around the next Chief Minister has started. From the party headquarters in Raipur to Delhi, several names kept doing the rounds even as those leaders themselves kept playing down their prospects.
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One such name to emerge was that of O.P. Choudhary, a bureaucrat-turned-politician who registered a resounding win with a margin of over 66,000 from Raigarh. The buzz around Mr. Choudhary, who contested his first election unsuccessfully from the same seat in 2018, started much before the results. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who was campaigning for Mr. Choudhary last month, told people of the constituency to send him to the Assembly while the party would take the onus of making him a bada aadmi or a big shot.
