Bastar has total 12 assembly seats and the BJP would be driven out of the key tribal stronghold region if it loses Chitrakot where the Congress is reportedly comfortable to retain the seat.
Long queues of voters were seen in Shyamgiri area of Dantewada where an IED blast triggered by Maoists killed BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi and four others.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi had last month announced that the land acquired for the project would be returned in case his party was voted to power.
Under government's regional connectivity scheme UDAN, Bastar, 20 km from Jagdalpur,was connected with Chhattisgarh’s capital, which is well connected to different cities in the country.
Modi will visit the Jangala Development Hub in Bijapur and will dedicate to the nation the Bhanupratappur-Gudum railway line via video conference and will also flag off a train between Dalli Rajhara and Bhanupratappur.
The arrested were allegedly involved in carrying out IED blasts targeting the security forces and firing on police teams in Sukma region.
Bastar IG Kalluri said that police have booked DU professor Nandini Sundar and several others for the alleged murder of a tribal man in Sukma district last week.
Two unidentified men armed with sharp-edged weapons barged into a church in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district and allegedly set ablaze a Bible and other articles besides thrashing the pastor and his pregnant wife, police said on Tuesday.
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