Himachal Pradesh CM’s wife Kamlesh Thakur to contest Assembly bye-election next month
She will be the Congress candidate from Dehra, a constituency that the party has never won since it was carved out in 2010.
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The Congress on Tuesday announced that Kamlesh Thakur, the wife of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, will contest the Assembly bye-election from Dehra next month.
Bye-elections to Dehra, along with the constituencies of Hamirpur and Nalagarh, will be held in Himachal Pradesh on July 10. The seats fell vacant after the independent legislators representing them resigned on March 22. The legislators, along with six Congress rebels, had voted in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Harsh Mahajan in the February 27 Rajya Sabha election.
The Congress President, Shri Mallikarjun Kharge ji, has approved the proposals for the candidature of the following persons to contest the ensuing Assembly bye-elections as Congress candidates from the states mentioned below:- pic.twitter.com/yCU6YTuuVp— Himachal Congress (@INCHimachal) June 18, 2024
The independent legislators – Ashish Sharma, Hoshiyar Singh and KL Thakur – joined the BJP on March 23. The Hindutva party has fielded all three of them for the bye-elections.
While Hoshiyar Singh will contest against Kamlesh Thakur in Dehra, Sharma will be in the fray from Hamirpur and Thakur from Nalagarh, PTI reported.
The Dehra constituency was created in 2010 and the Congress has never won the seat till now. The BJP’s Ravinder Singh Ravi won the seat in 2012, while Hoshiyar Singh won in 2017...
