Bhopal:
Vishnu Deo Sai, the BJP’s new tribal Chief Minister in Chhattisgarh, may have two deputies — a part of the get together’s efforts to steadiness the caste equation within the state.
The deputies are state BJP chief Arun Sao — a pacesetter from the Other Backward Classes and Vijay Sharma — a Brahmin.
The get together additionally couldn’t ignore Raman Singh, who has the expertise of operating the federal government for 15 years and is predicted to play a vital function within the BJP’s marketing campaign for 2024. Mr Singh, a Rajput, who was additionally a contender for the highest submit this time, would be the Assembly Speaker.
Along with Mr Singh, Arun Sao was additionally within the operating for the highest job within the state and the BJP is hoping that the additional prominence will assist hold factionalism at bay.
Vijay Sharma is a basic secretary of the get together — and together with the brand new Chief Minister — additionally very near Raman Singh. In the lately concluded meeting election, he defeated highly effective minister Congress chief and state minister Mohamad Akbar from Kawardha constituency by round 40,000 votes.
The BJP staff choice for Chhattisgarh was made after every week of deliberations alongside the strains of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s thought of getting a tribal chief because the Chief Minister of the tribal-dominated state. The BJP has received all 14 meeting seats within the tribal-dominated Surguja area and eight of the 12 seats in Bastar this time.
For the illustration of OBCs — the opposite enormous chunk of the state’s inhabitants — an OBC Deputy Chief Minister was named, sources stated.
The BJP claims that Mr Sai is the primary tribal Chief Minister of the state.
The get together has at all times contradicted former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi’s standing as a tribal. His Scheduled Tribe standing was challenged within the Chhattisgarh excessive court docket, which ordered {that a} committee be set as much as look at the difficulty.
In 2019, a case was filed towards him after his tribal standing declare was rejected by a government-appointed committee.