Kondagaon is an Assembly constituency located in the South region of Chhattisgarh state. The Kondagaon legislative assembly constituency went to polls on November 7 in the first phase.
The 3-1 verdict between BJP and Congress set the stage for the road to the national polls in 2024. State and national contests often differ but several key indicators stand out from the results, which also have significant implications for Congress and opposition I.N.D.I.A alliance
Congress will need some big wins to drive home a tough bargain with INDIA alliance partners. For BJP, victories will reinforce perceptions that it is headed for three successive Lok Sabha wins and that PM Modi can front assembly polls for the party without needing strong state-level leadership
The 71-year-old Maharaja is influential in most of the 14 assembly constituencies in the Surguja region, from where the Congress had won all the seats in the 2018 assembly polls.