Chanesh_Ram_Rathiya
Chanesh Ram Rathiya
Chhattisgarh minister and senior Congress leader (1942–2020)
Chanesh Ram Rathiya was a Chhattisgarh minister and senior Congress leader. He was elected as a MLA in 1977 from Dharamjaigarh constituency and in the undivided Madhya Pradesh. He subsequently won five more Assembly elections in a row from the same seat. He served as animal husbandry minister in the Digvijay Singh led-Congress government in erstwhile Madhya Pradesh, and was the food and civil supplies minister in the Ajit Jogi government (2000-2003)[1] after the formation of Chhattisgarh in 2000.[2]