Raipur/Jaipur: Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and his Chhatisgarh counterpart Bhupesh Baghel mutually raised the demands of coal and land for coaching hostel in Kota on Friday. The duo met during the 85th Congress plenary session that kicked off on Friday in Raipur.

Gehlot is learnt to have has discussed the issue of Parsa-Kanta coal block with Baghel. Gehlot tweeted, “Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh

CM Ashok Gehlot, CM Bupesh Baghel and CM Sukhwinder Sukhu welcome Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi at Raipur airport on Friday.

Baghel welcomed on reaching (Raipur) to attend the steering com- mittee meeting with senior Congress leaders.” Baghel demanded land in Kota for a hotel for students from Chhattisgarh. “Many of our children go for coaching in Kota, Rajasthan. I have written a letter to the CM of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot saying that our government wants to build a hostel in Kota, for this give us a free plot which is not far from the coaching institutes,” he tweeted. with the Centre’s Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme. He was addressing a farmers’ gathering convened by a Sikh organisation here. “The crop insurance scheme was there earlier also, but the farmers used to get cheated in the name of it.... They were tricked,” Nadda said. P8