Katghora | |
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Constituency for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
State | Chhattisgarh |
District | Korba |
Constituency | Korba |
Total electors | 197,615 [1] |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
Current MLA | Purushottam Kanwar |
Party | Indian National Congress |
Elected year | 2018 |
Katghora is one of the 90 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Chhattisgarh state in India. [2] [3] It is in Korba district and is a part of Korba (Lok Sabha constituency). [4]
Year | Member | Party | |
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1957 | Banwari Lal | Indian National Congress | |
1957 (By Poll) | Rudrasharan Pratap Singh | ||
1962 | |||
1967 | B. Navbatram | ||
1972 | Bodhram Kanwar | Independent | |
1977 | Indian National Congress | ||
1980 | |||
1985 | |||
1990 | Krishnalal Jaiswal | ||
1993 | Banwari Lal Agrawal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
1998 | |||
2003 | Bodhram Kanwar | Indian National Congress | |
2008 | |||
2013 | Lakhan Lal Dewangan | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2018 | Purushottam Kanwar [1] | Indian National Congress | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Purushottam Kanwar | ||||
NOTA | None of the Above | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Korba is a city and an industrial area in Korba District in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Korba was erstwhile part of Bilaspur District before 25 May 1998 later that Korba was made a separate District for ease of administration but it is still under Bilaspur Division. Korba is called power capital of Chhattisgarh due to presence of multiple thermal based power plants from Public sector like NTPC Limited, CSEB from State of Chhattisgarh as well as from private sector apart from Power plants Korba has the Asia's second largest and India's largest open cast coal mine in Gevra area of Korba Coalfield. BALCO Private owned Aluminium producer has its smelter Aluminium Plant in Korba. Here mainly the protected tribal tribe Korwa resides. Korba district is blessed by lush green forests from all around, a large population of tribals is found here. The tribals here prefer to live in harmony with the environment in the forest area due to which they have retained their distinctive cultural characteristics and traditional practices.
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