Manifesto for change
Ever so often, a film with relatively untested actors but a strong script humbles a release featuring the reigning superstar. It wasn't a Friday in Chhattisgarh when the assembly results came out, but the Congress, led by state-level leaders, trumped Raman Singh, the BJP's longest-serving chief minister.
In the most decisive mandate delivered in the history of the 18-year-old state, the Congress swept the BJP out of power and did so without Ajit Jogi, its former chief minister or any leader with a significant mass base. So, how did the Congress script this emphatic victory?
First, a flashback to January 2016. Ajit Jogi's son Amit, a Congress MLA, is expelled from the party after an incriminating tape surfaces in which he is heard allegedly 'fixing' a bypoll in 2014. Pradesh Congress Committee chief Bhupesh Baghel, a known Jogi-baiter and one of the two architects of this Congress win, acts
