Congress Election Committee to finalize names of candidates in the upcoming Assembly elections
In the important meeting of the State Congress Election Committee held in Delhi to finalize the names of the candidates in the upcoming Legislative Assembly elections, the committee has given the green signal to the tickets of all the sitting Congress MLAs. This means that the ticket of any sitting MLA will not be cut. Congress currently has 20 MLAs in the state assembly. Two MLAs Lakhwinder Singh Rana from Nalagarh and Pawan Kajal from Kangra have already left the Congress and joined the BJP.
Apart from this, tickets for the secretaries of All India Congress have also been cleared. The ticket of working president Chandra Kumar is also probably confirmed. Former MP Chandra Kumar was made the working president of the state Congress after Pawan Kajal joined the BJP.
Sudhir Sharma’s ticket from Dharamshala has also been confirmed. There was a lot of speculation about him going to the BJP too. Apart from this, the election committee has also stamped the tickets of Raghubir Singh Bali, son of former minister GS Bali from Nagrota Bagwan and Rajesh Dharmani, former MLA from Ghumarwin.
According to the members of the election committee, apart from these, the Congress has agreed on the candidates on 35 to 40 seats.
A meeting of the State Election Committee was held in Delhi under the chairmanship of State Congress President Pratibha Singh, in which state in-charge Rajiv Shukla, Sanjay Dutt, besides former Union Minister and G-22 group member Anand Sharma also attended.
It is understood that Vipalv Thakur, the president of the State Disciplinary Committee, may not contest the elections. He has already refused to contest the election.
Most of the big leaders of the state had gone to Delhi on the call of the All India Congress Committee in Delhi last day to protest. Election committee meeting was held today. After much deliberation in the meeting of the committee, it was decided to give tickets to the sitting MLAs.
After Lakhwinder Rana and Pawan Kajal joined the BJP in the Congress, the Congress was afraid that even the MLAs might switch sides and join the BJP camp. The name of Congress Rajendra Rana from Sujanpur had cropped up a lot in this regard. That is why the Congress has first tried to make arrangements for its sitting MLAs not to join the BJP. According to sources, an agreement has been reached in the Congress on about 40 tickets. Now in 28 seats, the head is to be broken in the Congress. Out of these, everyone’s eyes are on whether the former state Congress President Kuldeep Singh Rathore gets the ticket from Theog from Shimla. There will also be an eye in Shimla Urban and Kasauli.
However, the Congress party has taken an edge over the BJP in this matter by agreeing on the names of its candidates.
