HP goes with tradition, Congress returns to power
Eights ministers lost the poll. Jal Shakti Minister Mahender Singh’s son Rajat Thakur also tasted defeat.
Eights ministers lost the poll. Jal Shakti Minister Mahender Singh’s son Rajat Thakur also tasted defeat.
As some poll pundits have predicted a neck-to-neck fight between traditional rivals, all eyes are on rebel candidates as they could possibly emerge kingmakers. However, neither BJP nor Congress is taking chances to miss the opportune probability of grab power in the state.
According to election officials, the polling was peaceful and no major untoward incident was reported from anywhere in the state.
Our party, if voted to power, will review all the decisions taken by the incumbent government in the last six-year, said Chairman of the Congress campaign Committee Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu.
Jai Ram Thakur, on Thursday, said during the elections, many aspirational workers wish that they get party tickets, but there is an established system in our party for the process.
Jai Ram Thakur said the state government organised 'Pragatisheel Himachal: Sathapna ke 75 Varsh' function across Himachal “as our state had entered the 75th year of its formation the way Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched 'Har Ghar Tiranga Abhiyan' on the completion of 75 years of India's independence”.
This was the first time ever that the Prime Minister of India had participated in the Kullu Dussehra celebrations.
The Congress State General Secretary and legislator Vikramaditya Singh on Thursday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has kept a fund of Rs 500 crore to bribe the Congress leaders ahead of the upcoming Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election.
Congress MLAs in Goa and senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, and many leaders have left the party, he added.
Thakur said the Central government had fulfilled a long pending demand of the people of the Trans-Giri area who had been struggling for ST status ever since the Jaunsar-Bawar area of the neighbouring state Uttrakhand with almost same identical culture and topographic conditions was accorded tribal status in 1967.
