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Gargi Verma

Correspondent at The Indian Express

Reporting from Chhattisgarh. Exploring Conflict.

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  • Apr 18, 2024 | thewire.in | Gargi Verma

    Kanker: “Being a tribal CM and a CM who is tribal are two different things. Our chief minister identifies himself as a Hindu, so I don’t consider him to be a tribal chief minister,” said Vinod Nagwanshi, senior post-holder of the Chhattisgarh Sarva Adivasi Samaj and a candidate of the Hamar Raj Party from Chhattisgarh’s Kanker Lok Sabha seat.

  • Dec 10, 2023 | thewire.in | Gargi Verma

    Raipur: After a week of deliberation, and after appointment of three observers, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has finally named former Union minister Vishnu Deo Sai their chief minister in Chhattisgarh. Senior tribal leader and a crowd favourite, the Kunkuri MLA is a four-time MP and a three-time MLA. Born in 1964 in Jashpur district’s Bagia village, Sai started his political career as a panch in 1989.

  • Dec 5, 2023 | boomlive.in | Gargi Verma

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  • Dec 5, 2023 | boomlive.in | Gargi Verma

    Raipur — In February 2023, young men from Raipur, Durg and Bilaspur districts in Chhattisgarh received tickets to Dubai. Most of these men were to travel overseas for the first time. Even as they lined up outside their respective passport offices, to get Tatkal passports, a wedding celebration of an unprecedented scale was being planned in Ras-al-Khaimah, UAE. It was not the first party the hosts had thrown, but the scale had definitely changed.

  • Dec 3, 2023 | thewire.in | Gargi Verma

    Raipur: In a stunning move, the Bharatiya Janata Party in Chhattisgarh won 54 seats, going beyond every expectation and even the exit polls, released a day prior, to sweep the state in the assembly election. The Congress faced a massive loss, with only few ministers apart from chief minister Bhupesh Baghel managing to save their seats. The BJP established an early lead, winning all 14 seats in Sarguja region and eight out of 12 in the Bastar region.

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28 Feb 25

RT @nit_set: I dont have the full answer (obviously) but to me to fight this predatory structure is to double down and keep trying to build…

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4 Oct 24

A small glimpse of @conflictorium in #Raipur and what I do there https://t.co/v2Cdgr99hg

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30 Aug 24

RT @worthwords01: WII will now be studying the tunnel's impact on the national park's #wildlife before, during and after the project. SGNP…