Having faced a comprehensive rout in the recently concluded assembly polls, the Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (Jogi) – founded by former chief minister late Ajit Jogi, might be looking at a merger with the ruling BJP in the state
The Janta Congress Chhattisgarh-Jogi chief says the results show that contests increasingly becoming bipolar, between Congress and BJP, and that regional parties are being squeezed out; claims he feared such a result after his efforts to reach out to other parties failed
In 2000, when the state was carved out of Madhya Pradesh, it got its name from the tradition and common history of the royals - Chhattisgarh. However, two decades or more down the line, many royal families started disintegrating as there was no heir or protégé