Congress set to ‘secure’ Himachal govt, ahead in 4 of 6 bypolls
Congress candidates were leading in four of the six Assembly seats for which bypolls were held. In the other two seats, the BJP was ahead.
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‘Fight not BJP vs Congress, but BJP vs people… no threat to Congress govt’: Himachal CM Sukhvinder Sukhu
COME JUNE 1, Himachal Pradesh will vote for both its four Lok Sabha seats and the six Assembly constituencies whose Congress MLAs have defected to the BJP. The way the Assembly seats vote could decide the fate of the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu-led Congress government in the state.
Decode politics: Why PM Modi is talking of ‘bandarbant’ in Himachal?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim at public rallies in Nahan and Mandi last week that hundreds of crores of rupees in flood relief funds allocated to Himachal Pradesh were disbursed indiscriminately by the Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu-led state government, has triggered a flurry of counter accusations by Congress leaders.
Of devs, devniti in Himachal: How age-old traditions enter campaign
Maintaining a distance from the media during campaigning, Kangana Ranaut, the first Bollywood celebrity to contest Lok Sabha elections from Himachal Pradesh, has, however, followed a simple strategy to shed her “outsider tag” – interacting with locals in their dialects, obliging to their selfie requests and daily temple visits.
Today in Politics: Kejriwal to ramp up Punjab campaign in five-day blitz, Rahul gets set for Himachal push
With polling in Delhi coming to an end in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections Saturday, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal is all set to hit the campaign trail in Punjab from Sunday for a five-day period.
Today in Politics: PM Modi to kick off Himachal campaign, step up Punjab bid in push for Phase 7
As the campaigning for the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections, scheduled for May 25, drew to a close Thursday, the leaders across parties have shifted their focus to the seats going to polls in the seventh and final phase on June 1.
‘I never said I will not contest… Currently, there is no resentment within the party’: Himachal Congress chief Pratibha Singh
THAT Himachal Pradesh Congress chief Pratibha Singh is not happy with the state of affairs in the party has been evident since Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu was chosen as the Chief Minister after the Congress won the state Assembly elections last year. The discontent burst into the open during the recent Rajya Sabha elections, when six Congress MLAs cross-voted to help the BJP candidate win, and Pratibha refused to condemn them outright, while her son Vikramaditya, a minister in the Sukhu government, threatened to join the rebels.
Himachal Pradesh: After cross-voting in RS elections, 6 Cong MLAs, 3 Independents join BJP
IN A boost for the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, six disqualified Congress MLAs and three Independent MLAs from Himachal Pradesh – who had cross-voted in the Rajya Sabha elections last month — joined the party in New Delhi on Saturday.