Son of a road transport corporation driver, Sukhu, 58, had a modest beginning and used to run a milk counter at Chhota Shimla in his early days.
Sukhu said that he is happy that despite being from an ordinary family he is going to be the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh
Mukesh Agnihotri, the leader of the opposition in the outgoing Assembly, will be the deputy chief minister, the party said after a meeting of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP).
The Congress wrested Himachal Pradesh from the BJP, winning 40 seats in the 68-member Assembly. The results of the November 12 assembly elections were declared on Thursday.
The Congress on Thursday won 40 seats in the 68-member Assembly in the hill state which maintained its tradition of not voting any incumbent government to power since 1985.
Shandil defeated Kashyap by a margin of 3,858 votes.
The Congress on Thursday appeared to be heading to achieve majority in Himachal Pradesh as it surged ahead of the BJP, winning 16 seats and leading in 23 others.
The party was leading in 40 seats of 68 till noon in the hill state with most of its top leaders having won their seats.
The Seraj constituency falls under the Mandi parliamentary seat, which state Congress chief Pratibha Singh represents. She won it in a by-election.
Mahajan is the son of former Congress stalwart Des Raj Mahajan who was assembly speaker twice and had won from the Dalhousie constituency in 1967, 1972 and 1982.
HP Assembly Election 2022 Result Live: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Indian National Congress are major parties in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly election.
In Himachal Pradesh, which went to the polls on November 12, the Republic-PMARQ exit poll gave 34-49 seats to BJP with a vote share of 44.8 per cent.
The number ranges between 21-60 in 4478 primary and 895 middle schools and 61 to 100 in 681 primary and 47 middle schools, a recent report by Unified District Information System for Education stated.
Congress workers held a protest and also accused the polling party of interfering with the EVMs, prompting the district election commission authorities to immediately suspend the polling party members.
Before heading for the polling booth, the mother-son duo offered prayers at Shani Mandir in Shimla.
In an interview with PTI, the former Union minister said he had campaigned to the best of his ability in the polls wherever the Congress candidates invited him but there was no centralised planning for his campaign.
If the Congress realised that adopting the new pension scheme was a mistake, why did it not revert to the old scheme when the party was in power between 2012 and 2017, he asked.
Making a strong pitch for a change of government in the state, she said that if the Congress comes to power it will approve 1 lakh jobs and return to the old pension scheme in the first cabinet meeting itself.
Addressing a public meeting in Rampur in favour of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Kaul Singh, Nadda said Singh has protected the people’s interests in the region despite losing the last Assembly poll contest.
The Chhattisgarh CM also attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the ‘Agniveer’ scheme and called it an insult to the youth.
Born in July 1917 in the tribal district of Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh, Negi had been a state icon since 2014. He had cast his vote 16 times in the Lok Sabha elections.
The spokesman said that during the Nakas by the Income Tax Department, cash worth Rs 2,15,90,000 and gold worth Rs. 44,11,232 was also seized.
The Vijay Sankalp Abhiyan has started in the state today. Under this, all senior BJP leaders, union ministers, and the ministers of the state will conduct public rallies in each constituency.
During the past 24 hours, cash worth Rs 31,80,800 and around 2109 litres of illicit liquor worth Rs 6,16,832 was seized during the checks carried out by the police department at various places in the state.
Narottam Thakur, a retired teacher, filed his papers as the BJP candidate in place of Maheshwar Singh, a party leader said.
