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All Power to the Tribe | Chhattisgarh

CM Baghel gets his man in as PCC chief. Mohan Markam has his work cut out ahead of the bypolls.

The appointment of a new Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president in Chhattisgarh is an affirmation of life in the grand old party, struck by a sort of decision-making paralysis in the aftermath of the Lok Sabha rout and the subsequent resignation of Rahul Gandhi from the post of party president.

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