New Delhi, December 9
With the Congress rising positive in Himachal Pradesh, kingdom celebration president Pratibha Singh is taken into consideration a key frontrunner for the leader minister’s post, carefully accompanied via way of means of former celebration leader Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu and outgoing CLP chief Mukesh Agnihotri. Deciding at the leader ministerial face who can bind the celebration going ahead is the instant undertaking for the Congress. The newly-elected MLAs could meet quickly to determine on their chief.
Though Pratibha Singh did now no longer contest the meeting election and isn’t an MLA, she had campaigned drastically throughout the kingdom. Singh is currently the Mandi MP after she received withinside the bye-election from outgoing leader minister Jairam Thakur’s domestic district. She additionally contains the legacy of former leader minister Virbhadra Singh, who instructed the Congress withinside the kingdom for over 4 decades.
Singh, celebration reassets claimed, has the aid of a majority of MLAs who’ve owed their allegiance to Virbhadra Singh who remained the Congress’ undisputed chief withinside the hill kingdom for long. Pratibha Singh’s son Vikramaditya has been elected as an MLA from Shimla rural and is likewise a few of the hopefuls, despite the fact that many don’t forget him too younger for the pinnacle post.
The different CM aspirants are Sukhu, an MLA from Nadaun, and Agnihotri, who became elected from Haroli. Both are hopeful that the celebration excessive command could recognize their paintings as former PCC leader and as Congress Legislature Party chief.
Agnihotri claims that he positioned forth the celebration’s function strongly withinside the kingdom meeting as CLP chief and highlighted BJP’s “misgovernance” over the last 5 years. Agnihotri is a Brahmin chief, even as Sukhu hails from the dominant Thakur network withinside the kingdom.
Former PCC leader Kuldeep Singh Rathore, who received from Theog in a multi-cornered contest, is likewise a CM hopeful and is claiming that he introduced the faction-ridden celebration collectively withinside the previous couple of years.
Rathore became changed some months in the past with Pratibha Singh as the top of the Himachal unit. Some different hopefuls like six-time MLA Asha Kumari and previous PCC leader Kaul Singh Thakur misplaced the election this time.
Interestingly, numerous Congress leaders had contested the elections withinside the wish that they will be the celebration’s leader ministerial face. This even helped them garner sufficient aid of their respective constituencies. During the election campaign, Home Minister Amit Shah and different BJP leaders had taken a swipe on the Congress over its leader minister-hopefuls.