Raman Singh sworn-in as Chhattisgarh CM for third time in a row

The BJP registered a thumping victory by winning 49 of the 90 seats, one less than its 2008 tally. Congress could bag 39 seats in the 90-member Assembly while the rest of the two seats went to BSP and an Independent each. 

Singh retained his Rajnandgaon Assembly constituency by defeating Congress' candidate Alka Mudliyar, the wife of former Congress MLA Uday Mudliyar who was killed in the Darbha naxal attack in May this year, by a margin of 35,866 votes. 

Singh has now joined the elite club of BJP chief ministers who have scored hat-tricks in their respective states.

Posters, banners and pamphlet carrying Singh's photo were put on almost all the roads and market areas across the city.