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Senior Congress leaders successful Chhattisgarh, including the Pradesh Congress Committee president Deepak Baij and erstwhile Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, joined a sit-in agitation connected Tuesday (May 26, 2026), demanding the withdrawal of Arms Act charges against a section enactment functionary successful Surajpur district.
Senior enactment leaders were mobilised aft territory Congress vice-president Narendra Jain was booked successful a lawsuit nether the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, 2023, Arms Act, 1959, pursuing a ailment lodged by BJP territory president Murli Manohar Soni connected May 23. The Opposition enactment alleges that the Arms Act was slapped to power the upcoming Shivnandanpur Nagar Panchayat elections.
Shivnandanpur – an country with a colonisation of astir 4,500 successful the bluish tribal loop of Sarguja – transitioned from a gram Panchayat to a Nagar Panchayat successful the twelvemonth 2024, and the recently constituted assembly volition spell into its archetypal elections connected June 1. According to Congress spokesperson Sushil Anand Shukla, the FIR was registered without a due enquiry to dissuade Jain, a cardinal fig successful the campaign, from participating successful the predetermination process. Mr. Jain is yet to beryllium arrested.
On Tuesday (May 26, 2026), Mr. Baij, arsenic good arsenic erstwhile Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister T.S. Singh Deo – who hails from the Sarguja portion – announced that they volition spell connected an indefinite onslaught until their 3 demands, including the cancellation of the FIR against Mr. Jain, are met. Mr. Baij has been camping extracurricular the Vishrampur constabulary presumption – wherever the FIR was filed – since Monday (May 25, 2026).
“We request that the mendacious FIR filed by the authorities against District Congress Committee General Secretary Narendra Jain is cancelled, the Arms Act charges indispensable beryllium dropped, and instrumentality immediate, strict enactment against the blameworthy constabulary officer,” said Mr. Baij.
“BJP should perceive carefully... Repression against Congress workers volition not beryllium tolerated. We volition raze them to the ground. Remember... we are Congressmen!!” wrote ex CM Mr. Baghel connected X.
Murali Manohar Soni, the BJP territory president, connected whose ailment the lawsuit was registered, claimed that determination was an allegation that the Congress person had tried to onslaught his enactment workers with weapons, against which helium had registered the constabulary complaint.
