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Digvijay backs Jogi as Chhattisgarh CM

With hardly a day left for the scheduled swearing-in of the Chhattisgarh chief minister, observers Prabha Rau and Ghulam Nabi Azad, both AICC general secretaries, met party legislators separately to find out their choice of chief minister.

Singh told reporters in Raipur after a meeting of the observers and the legislators that Jogi had the required experience and administrative skill to give direction to the nascent state.

He said legislators from the new state and not the party high command would decide the issue of leadership. The party high command had not imposed its choice and left it to the legislators to choose the leader of the Congress Legislative Party, he added.

Earlier, during the meeting with party's central observers and legislators, Digvijay suggested Jogi's name for the top post.

Asked about any likelihood of an election for the CLP leader's post, Singh said the process of talking to the party legislators individually was itself a kind of election.

Meanwhile, Chanesh Ram Rathia, a minister in Singh's Council of Ministers who belongs to Chhattisgarh, made it clear that a 'fake' tribal would not be acceptable to him as chief minister.

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