With the second list, the total number of candidates declared by the Congress went up to 83 out of the total of 90.
The no-confidence motion was defeated by voice vote in the state assembly shortly after 1 am following a 13-hour debate.
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The Congress units in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, the only two states where the party is in government on its own, have passed resolutions that Gandhi be made the party's president.
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Upset over the defeat of several of Congress's sitting Members of Legislative Assembly in the Chhattisgarh assembly elections, state Congress chief Charandas Mahant blamed it on "internal sabotage" on Sunday evening.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday scored a hat-trick of victories in the Chhattisgarh assembly elections, winning 49 of 90 seats, thwarting the Congress' bid to wrest power after a decade.
Apart from the chief minister and deputy chief minister, 13 cabinet and 10 ministers of state were allocated portfolios.
Of the 12 seats in Bastar, the Congress won eight. The BJP had secured 11 of these seats in 2008.
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