Chhattisgarh says a big no to Maoists

The people of Chhattisgarh deserve to be congratulated for defying the Maoists and turning up in large numbers to exercise their franchise in the first phase of the State's Assembly election. Of the 18 constituencies that went to the poll on Monday, as many as 13 were in the districts of Bastar and Rajnandgaon, bang into the country's Red terror corridor. Yet, voter turnout registered a high of 67 per cent, with some constituencies such as Chief Minister Raman Singh's home turf Rajnandgaon moving as far up as 81 per cent.

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