Congress Himachal MLAs To Meet Tomorrow To Decide Chief Minister

The Congress, checking its caravan of losses, demonstrated an enormous surge in Himachal, profitable the state and besting its principal rival, the BJP. A cautious Congress has known as a gathering of its MLAs tomorrow to resolve on the Chief Minister query.

Earlier, the celebration had known as all its MLAs to Chandigarh however modified its plans later after it obtained a transparent majority within the polls.

“The newly-elected Congress MLAs would meet in Shimla on Friday post-election outcomes and resolve on electing the brand new legislature celebration chief,” Rajeev Shukla, in-charge of Himachal Pradesh, informed informed information company PTI.

“The celebration is sending two observers — Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and senior chief Bhupinder Hooda— together with me. We shall be travelling to Shimla tomorrow the place all of the celebration MLAs have been known as,” Mr Shukla additional stated.

Himachal Pradesh caught to its “rivaaj” — the apply of oscillating between the BJP and Congress each 5 years.

The Congress received 40 of the state’s 68 seats. The BJP, whereas scoring a landslide victory in Gujarat, remained a distant second within the northern state, with 25 seats. Chief Minister Jairam Thakur has already conceded defeat.

Dwelling state of BJP nationwide president JP Nadda, Himachal noticed BJP rebels in a minimum of 21 of the 68 constituencies. Solely two of them received, however others obtained vital votes that will ideally have gone to the BJP.

Congress leaders have credited celebration common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s marketing campaign within the hill state for the great exhibiting of the celebration within the meeting elections.

Priyanka Gandhi led the celebration’s cost in Himachal Pradesh with a number of rallies and was additionally carefully concerned in technique planning for the polls.

That is Priyanka Gandhi’s first electoral success whereas heading the marketing campaign cost. The celebration had misplaced Uttar Pradesh meeting polls whereas she spearheaded the canvassing there earlier this 12 months.