Ajit Jogi, the first CM of Chhattisgarh, has said he is not B-team of BJP and would contest the Assembly elections against incumbent CM Raman Singh from Rajnandgaon constituency. Jogi was earlier a member of the Congress but broke away in 2016 to form his own party, Chhattisgarh Janata Congress. He called Congress "irrelevant", saying it was a closed chapter.