As part of protests, families are camping out in the forests in shifts to protect trees. After the approval was granted on April 6, women of the region also hugged the trees, in an echo of the famous Chipko movement.
Bilaspur High Court on Friday granted bail to self-proclaimed ‘Godman’ Kalicharan who had been arrested after making derogatory remarks against Mahatma Gandhi at a Dharam Sansad in Raipur last year.
Notably, 27 people, veteran Congress leaders including then Congress State president Nand Kumar Patel, Mahendra Karma, Dinesh Patel and VC Shukla were brutally killed in the Naxal attack in 2013