The Congress on Wednesday released a list of 59 candidates for 9 November Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election 2017. Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh to contest from Arki, Rajinder Rana to contest from Sujanpur.
The Congress on Wednesday released a list of 59 candidates for 9 November Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election 2017. Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh will contest from Arki while Rajinder Rana will contest from Sujanpur, Congress announced.
The list was finalised after a marathon meeting of the Congress central election committee chaired by party president Sonia Gandhi. Nominees for the rest nine seats, including Shimla (rural), would be announced later. State Congress chief Sukhvinder Singh Sukkhu has been fielded from the Nadaun Assembly seat, which the latter had unsuccessfully contested in the previous election. [caption id=“attachment_3771735” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]![File image of Himachal chief minister Virbhadra Singh. CNN-IBN]()
File image of Himachal chief minister Virbhadra Singh. CNN-IBN[/caption] The chief minister’s son, Vikramaditya’s name did not figure in the first list. Singh had two days ago had said that Vikramaditya will contest from his Shimla (Rural) seat. The Congress has fielded all its senior state leaders for the election. Rajya Sabha MP Viplove Thakur will contest the election from the Dehra Assembly segment, which she had lost in 2012. Other senior leaders including AICC secretary Asha Kumari, Kaul Singh Thakur, G S Bali, Mukesh Agnihotri and Gangu Ram Musafir will contest from Dalhousie, Darang, Nagrota, Haroli and Pachchad, respectively. The Congress has not declared candidates for the remaining nine Assembly constituencies given there are many aspirants, party sources said. The seats include Kullu, Mandi and Theog. Party veteran Vidya Stokes was supposed to contest from Theog. But Stokes announced quitting politics on Wednesday. Former Union minister Sukh Ram’s son Anil is currently representing Mandi. But he has quit the party and joined the BJP, which has already fielded him from the same seat.
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