Bhupesh Baghel is an Indian politician serving as the third and current Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh. He was president of the Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress. He has been a member of the legislative assembly five times from Patan. He had been a cabinet minister in undivided Madhya Pradesh in the late nineties. He was the first Minister for Revenue, Public Health Engineering and Relief Work in Chhattisgarh