Himachal Pradesh goes to bypolls later this week and all eyes are on two of three seats – Dehra and Hamirpur. The third seat is Nalagarh. Out of the Modi cupboard, Thakur is utilising his time to strengthen the BJP within the state with a give attention to two meeting seats in his constituency. Thakur is an MP from Hamirpur. Whereas Dehra and Hamirpur legislative seats are a part of the Hamirpur Lok Sabha constituency, Nalagarh is a part of the Shimla Lok Sabha constituency.
Thakur has already addressed dozens of ballot conferences and will likely be within the state until this night – the tip of the campaigning. The voting will happen on July 10 and the counting of votes will likely be taken up on July 13.
The bypolls have was a status battle – each for the Congress and the BJP. Whereas Anurag Thakur is Hamirpur MP, Himachal CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and Deputy CM Mukesh Agnihotri hail from the identical Lok Sabha seat. Whereas Sukhu hails from Nadaun, Agnihotri represents the Haroli seat and each of those seats come underneath the Hamirpur Lok Sabha.
The BJP is upbeat after its efficiency within the not too long ago concluded Lok Sabha polls the place it swept the elections successful all 4 seats within the state. Alternatively, the Congress is trying to win the bypolls to indicate that folks proceed to belief the Sukhu authorities and the Lok Sabha polls have been an aberration.
The bypolls are being held following the resignation of three Impartial MLAs—Ok L Sharma, Ok L Thakur, and Hoshyar Singh Chambyal—who supported BJP nominee Harsh Mahajan within the February Rajya Sabha elections. After becoming a member of the BJP, they’ve been nominated by the social gathering to contest from their respective seats: Sharma from Hamirpur, Thakur from Nalagarh, and Chambyal from Dehra.
Whereas six Congress MLAs had additionally supported the BJP through the Rajya Sabah polls inviting their disqualification, the six seats went to the bypolls together with the Lok Sabha elections. Of those six seats, the Congress gained 4 as towards the BJP’s two.
With this, the present tally of Congress stands at 38 and that of the BJP at 27. If the BJP wins the bypolls, it’s going to painting the victory as an ethical defeat of the Sukhu authorities whereas a victory for Congress would additional consolidate the ability in favour of CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu.
