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The Congress on Tuesday fielded Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur as its nominee for the Dehra Assembly bypoll scheduled for July 10.
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.
Along with the Lok Sabha elections, Himachal Pradesh will vote for bypolls to six Assembly constituencies, now vacant after the sitting Congress MLAs cross-voted in favour of the BJP in the recent Rajya Sabha elections and were disqualified. However, given that theripples of that rebellion haven’t still settled in the Congress, the party led by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu is facing a tough task trying to retain the six seats, which include Sujanpur, Barsar, Gagret, Kutlehar, Dharamshala, and Lahaul-Spiti.
The bypolls to six Assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh, fallen vacant following the disqualification of as many Congress MLAs, will be held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha polls on June 1, state’s Chief Electoral Officer Maneesh Garg said Saturday. The counting of votes will be held on June 4.
Eleven Himachal Pradesh MLAs, including six rebels and three independent representatives, arrived in BJP-ruled Uttarakhand, signaling ongoing infighting within the state Congress.
THE DEFEAT of Abhishek Manu Singhvi in Rajya Sabha election in Himachal Pradesh may have come as a huge embarrassment to the Congress but the central leadership and Singhvi himself had prior information that a handful of MLAs who were upset with Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu were restive and could cross over, sources said. In fact, it was the scale of the defection which surprised the party.
Himachal Pradesh Congress crisis: The six rebel Congress MLAs, who were disqualified from the state Assembly for cross-voting in Rajya Sabha elections challenged the decision in Himachal Pradesh high court on Friday. The cross-voting created a political crisis in the state with the ruling Congress taking some immediate steps to save its government in Himachal Pradesh.
Not many were surprised when the son of six-time Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and state PWD minister Vikramaditya Singh offered his resignation from the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Cabinet on Wednesday while accusing the latter of humiliating his father, deepening the political crisis in the hill state following the party’s loss in the poll for the sole Rajya Sabha seat a day earlier.