Bhupesh Baghel

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Bhupesh Baghel in June 2018

Bhupesh Baghel ( Hindi भूपेश बघेल , born August 23, 1961 in the Durg district , then Madhya Pradesh , today Chhattisgarh , India) is a politician of the Indian National Congress . He has been Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh State since December 17, 2018 .

biography

Bhupesh Baghel was born into a peasant Hindu family in the Durg district in the center of Chhattisgarh (then still part of Madhya Pradesh). His family belongs to the Kurmi population group , which makes up around 14 percent of the population in Chhattisgarh and is classified by the state in the Other Backward Classes (OBC).

In 1986 Baghel joined the Indian Youth Congress , the youth organization of the Congress Party. In 1993 he won constituency 164-Patan as a candidate for the Congress Party in the general election in Madhya Pradesh. He was able to maintain the constituency in the subsequent 1998 election. In 1999 he became Minister of Transport in the government of Chief Minister Digvijay Singh . After the new state of Chhattisgarh was formed from the eastern districts of Madhya Pradesh in 2000, Baghel continued his political career in Chhattisgarh. In the government of Ajit Jogi , the first chief minister of Chhattisgarh, he served as finance minister from 2000 to 2003. In the 2003 election to the Chhattisgarh Parliament, he again won his constituency 78-Patan . The election was lost for the Congress party, Baghel lost his ministerial office and for the following 15 years the state was governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under Chief Minister Raman Singh with an absolute majority. In the election to the parliament of Chhattisgarh in 2008, Baghel also narrowly lost his constituency 62-Patan , which had been held since 1993, to the BJP opponent. He then ran for election the following year in the election for Lok Sabha in constituency 8-Rajpur , but was also defeated there by the BJP candidate with 307,000 to 365,000 votes. Between 2009 and 2013, Baghel was without a parliamentary mandate. However, in the elections to the parliament of Chhattisgarh in 2013 and 2018, he again won his old constituency of 62-Patan .

On May 25, 2013, Maoist terrorists ( Naxalites ) carried out an attack on a convoy of leading Congress Party politicians in the vicinity of Jagdalpur in the east of Chhattisgarh. The attack, which reportedly involved up to 250 Naxalites, killed leading politicians of the Congress party, including Nand Kumar Patel, the party leader in Chhattisgarh, his son, as well as the former party leader Mahendra Karma and ex-foreign minister Vidya Charan Shukla . A few days before the parliamentary elections in Chattisgarh, the Congress party was largely deprived of its leadership in the state. In October 2014, Baghel was elected as the new leader of the Congress Party in Chhattisgarh.

In the parliamentary elections in Chhattisgarh on November 12 and 20, 2018, the Congress Party achieved a convincing election victory. It won 68 of the 90 constituencies, while the previously ruling BJP only had 15. On December 16, 2018, after the election results became known, the governing bodies of the Congress Party nominated Bhupesh Baghel as the Congress party's candidate for the office of future Chief Minister. On December 17, 2018, Baghel was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh.

Controversy

In May 2017, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW), a special agency investigating corruption and white-collar crime, launched an investigation into Baghel and family members over alleged irregularities in land allocation. Baghel denied the allegations and described them as politically motivated.

In the run-up to the 2018 parliamentary elections in Chhattisgarh, a video CD appeared showing the then Minister for Public Works in Chhattisgarh, Rajesh Munat (BJP), during sexual activities. It quickly became clear, however, that it was a fake in which the face of the minister had been morphed onto that of the actual actor . The CBI investigated and this led to Kailash Murarka, a BJP colleague who was accused of having commissioned the production of the CD in Mumbai through intermediaries. Murarka went into hiding and was expelled from the BJP. In the course of the investigation, Baghel was also accused of having been in contact with the middlemen. Baghel was detained for 14 days, but protested his innocence and also refused to be released on bail.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anurag Dwary, Nidhi Sethi: Ahead Of Oath, Bhupesh Baghel Repeats "Farm Loan Waiver" Promise. NDTV, December 16, 2018, accessed December 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on December 16, 2018 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  3. ↑ Amit Chaturvedi: Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: Top state Congress leaders among 25 killed. NDTV, May 26, 2013, accessed December 16, 2018 .
  4. ↑ How the deadly 2013 Maoist attack wiped out entire Congress leadership in Chhattisgarh. dailyhunt.in, November 10, 2018, accessed on December 16, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Who is Bhupesh Bhagel? Know about the man behind Congress' mega rise in Chhattisgarh. Financial Express, December 16, 2018, accessed December 16, 2018 .
  6. ^ Joseph John: Congress warrior Bhupesh Baghel to be chief minister of Chhattisgarh. The Times of India, December 16, 2018, accessed December 16, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Bhupesh Baghel takes oath as the chief minister of Chhattisgarh. The Economic Times, December 17, 2018, accessed December 17, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Chhattisgarh Congress chief booked in plot allotment case. The Indian express, May 9, 2017, accessed December 16, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Sex CD Morphed To Taint Chhattisgarh Minister ": CBI. NDTV, September 26, 2018, accessed on December 16, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Baghel, Bhupesh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES भूपेश बघेल
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Durg district