75% Voting In Himachal. BJP Aims To Make History, Congress Eyes Comeback

1. On the nub of the battle is whether or not the BJP succumbs to the state’s “rivaaj”, or tradition, of changing the government every election. Rebels are a serious headache for the ruling social gathering. In 2017, it acquired 44 of the 68 seats; Congress acquired 21. This time, pitching PM Narendra Modi’s face together with Jairam Thakur’s work, it mentioned “continuity” is essential to improvement. Its major argument: “Double engine” — identical social gathering in energy in state and at Centre — will guarantee unhindered work. It cited one other Himalayan state, Uttarakhand, for instance of defeating such a development.

2. The Congress’s argument is that the election is about native points. It needs the voters go by the four-decade custom of voting out the incumbent. Beset with a management disaster for the reason that demise of veteran Virbhadra Singh, the social gathering says it will sail again to energy as its seat-wise ticket allocation has been “significantly better than earlier than”. Virbhadhra Singh’s wife Pratibha Singh is the state unit chief; son Vikramaditya Singh is amongst candidates.

3. The chief fear for the BJP is that it has 21 rebels. It is a status situation for nationwide chief JP Nadda, a Himachal veteran who was as soon as a minister below Prem Kumar Dhumal. Mr Dhumal will not be contesting — he insists he retired on his personal — although the “denial of ticket” made headlines, all of the extra as a result of many leaders cried on stage.

4. The BJP marketing campaign had Union ministers and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, seen as an aggressive face of its Hindutva ideology, holding multiples rallies. For the Congress, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra held rallies whereas her brother Rahul Gandhi caught to his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in South India. Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress’s first non-Gandhi chief in 24 years, campaigned too.

5. The Congress ran a low-key marketing campaign even in PM Modi’s stronghold Gujarat, which votes subsequent month, however it might want to win Himachal to reverse its downslide and fireplace up its cadres. The social gathering has misplaced in 9 states in about two years. There are 9 extra state polls subsequent 12 months, together with in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, the one two the place Congress has chief ministers.

6. Early this 12 months, the Congress misplaced energy in Himachal’s neigbouring state Punjab to the Aam Aadmi Occasion. The AAP is contesting Himachal however its focus, evidently, remained on Gujarat. 

7. Congress’s promise of restoring the pre-2004 Previous Pension Scheme grew to become a serious situation because the state has over 2 lakh authorities workers. The BJP has promised implementation of Uniform Civil Code and eight lakh jobs within the state. On pension, it says that “if anybody would restore the previous scheme, it is going to be the BJP”.

8. Vital candidates embrace Chief Minister Jairam Thakur from Seraj, minister Suresh Bhardwaj from Kasumpti, Congress Legislature Occasion chief Mukesh Agnihotri from Haroli, Vikramaditya Singh from Shimla Rural, and Congress marketing campaign committee chief Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu.

9. Himachal has 55 lakh registered. For polling that started at 8 am, the Election Fee arrange 7,884 stations, together with three in far-flung areas. The best sales space was in Tashigang in Kaza in Lahaul-Spiti district, at 15,256 ft, for 52 voters.

10. Within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, there was over 72 per cent voter turnout and the BJP received all 4 seats. Voting went as much as 74 per cent within the 2017 meeting elections, the very best in 15 years, and the BJP unseated the Congress.

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