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It has been more than a month since voting ended in Udhampur-Doda parliamentary constituency. Retired Army Subedar Chandra Singh and Naib Tehsildar Kuldeep Singh have spent all their waking hours – if not the sleeping hours – in this time watching LED screens installed in a garage of the Government Degree College here, with only a pedestal fan to fight the heat.
Himachal Congress leader and state minister Vikramaditya Singh lost the high-profile Mandi Lok Sabha battle to actor Kangana Ranaut by 74,755 votes. In an interview with The Indian Express, Singh talks about his loss from Mandi — a seat that his parents, the late former CM Virbhadra Singh, and state Congress chief Pratibha Singh have represented before — why he thinks it will stand him in good stead, Kangana Ranaut, and why he contested despite reluctance.
Repeating its 2019 performance in the parliamentary polls, the BJP Tuesday won all four Lok Sabha seats of Himachal Pradesh.
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.
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.
As she emerges from an SUV, flanked by two gun-toting paramilitary force personnel, a slogan blares from the dais, a short walk away. “Phool nahin chingari hai…“, says the enthusiastic BJP worker on the mic. Finishes the assembled crowd: “Yeh Bharat ki nari hai.” The implication: “Ranaut is not a flower but a spark, everything an Indian woman should be”.
Kangana Ranaut, the BJP candidate from Mandi, repeated her earlier claim that India had become independent in 2014. On May 13, she expressed her desire for India to become a 'Hindu Rashtra'.
The Congress released another list of 16 candidate for the Upcoming Lok Sabha Elections on Saturday. The party fielded Vikramaditya Singh against Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) candidate Kangana Ranaut in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi.