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CHANDIGARH: Finally, it’s official. After all of the hectic lobbying, 4 time MLA Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, 58 has been named as the brand new Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. Mukesh Agnihotri would be the Deputy CM.
The names of Chief Minister and his deputy was introduced quickly after the top of the assembly of the Congress Legislative Party (CLP) social gathering in Shimla.
According to a report, son of a highway transport company driver, SS Sukhu had a modest starting and used to run a milk counter at Chhota Shimla in his early days.
The Nadaun MLA, who is taken into account near Rahul Gandhi and was the Congress marketing campaign committee head, was unanimously elected chief of the Congress Legislature Party on Saturday.
Earlier within the day, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge cleared Suku’s title and after the CLP assembly, social gathering observer and Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Bhagel introduced the names of CM and his deputy. They will probably be sworn in on December 11.
Meanwhile the supporters of State social gathering president Pratibha Singh have been protesting by means of out the day exterior the Cecil Hotel in Shimla the place the social gathering observers Baghel and former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had been staying as she has vehemently against Sukhu being made the CM and had conveyed her displeasure however lastly she relented.
From the morning itself Congress MLAs made a beeline to the resort and met the observers. Many state social gathering leaders together with Pratibha Singh and chief of the opposition within the outgoing meeting Mukesh Agnihotri apart from Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu met the observers individually.
Sources stated that the social gathering observers and excessive command weren’t in favour of Pratibha to be CM as they had been averse to dealing with a by-poll from Mandi Lok Sabha seat in case Pratibha is made CM and later an meeting by election to get her elected as an MLA after which she reportedly bargained for the put up of deputy chief minister for her son Vikramaditya Singh who had gained from the Shimla (Rural) constituency for the second time.
Sukhu is MLA from Nadaun in Hamirpur district and he had the help of a majority of the legislators.
This is for the second time that Hamirpur district has obtained a Chief Ministe as former BJP Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal had misplaced the elections in 2017 got here from the Sujanpur seat.
According to a report, son of a highway transport company driver, SS Sukhu, 58, had a modest starting and used to run a milk counter at Chhota Shimla in his early days.
A product of pupil politics, Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu was a recognized detractor of social gathering veteran Virbhadra Singh who had dominated Himachal Pradesh politics for over 5 a long time till his demise final yr. With the social gathering bagging its first victory within the hill state with out the charismatic presence of Virbhadra Singh, Sukhu’s elevation makes it clear that the social gathering is able to transfer on.
More so, the social gathering didn’t give in to the robust declare to the put up mounted by Pratibha Singh, the social gathering’s state unit chief and spouse of Virbhadra Singh.
He gained the meeting election for the primary time in 2003 from Nadaun, retained the seat in 2007 however was defeated in 2012 and gained once more in 2017 and 2022.
ALSO READ | How a battered and bruised Congress discovered love in Shimla
(With inputs from PTI)
CHANDIGARH: Finally, it’s official. After all of the hectic lobbying, 4 time MLA Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, 58 has been named as the brand new Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. Mukesh Agnihotri would be the Deputy CM.
The names of Chief Minister and his deputy was introduced quickly after the top of the assembly of the Congress Legislative Party (CLP) social gathering in Shimla.
According to a report, son of a highway transport company driver, SS Sukhu had a modest starting and used to run a milk counter at Chhota Shimla in his early days.
The Nadaun MLA, who is taken into account near Rahul Gandhi and was the Congress marketing campaign committee head, was unanimously elected chief of the Congress Legislature Party on Saturday.
Earlier within the day, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge cleared Suku’s title and after the CLP assembly, social gathering observer and Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Bhagel introduced the names of CM and his deputy. They will probably be sworn in on December 11.
Meanwhile the supporters of State social gathering president Pratibha Singh have been protesting by means of out the day exterior the Cecil Hotel in Shimla the place the social gathering observers Baghel and former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had been staying as she has vehemently against Sukhu being made the CM and had conveyed her displeasure however lastly she relented.
From the morning itself Congress MLAs made a beeline to the resort and met the observers. Many state social gathering leaders together with Pratibha Singh and chief of the opposition within the outgoing meeting Mukesh Agnihotri apart from Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu met the observers individually.
Sources stated that the social gathering observers and excessive command weren’t in favour of Pratibha to be CM as they had been averse to dealing with a by-poll from Mandi Lok Sabha seat in case Pratibha is made CM and later an meeting by election to get her elected as an MLA after which she reportedly bargained for the put up of deputy chief minister for her son Vikramaditya Singh who had gained from the Shimla (Rural) constituency for the second time.
Sukhu is MLA from Nadaun in Hamirpur district and he had the help of a majority of the legislators.
This is for the second time that Hamirpur district has obtained a Chief Ministe as former BJP Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal had misplaced the elections in 2017 got here from the Sujanpur seat.
According to a report, son of a highway transport company driver, SS Sukhu, 58, had a modest starting and used to run a milk counter at Chhota Shimla in his early days.
A product of pupil politics, Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu was a recognized detractor of social gathering veteran Virbhadra Singh who had dominated Himachal Pradesh politics for over 5 a long time till his demise final yr. With the social gathering bagging its first victory within the hill state with out the charismatic presence of Virbhadra Singh, Sukhu’s elevation makes it clear that the social gathering is able to transfer on.
More so, the social gathering didn’t give in to the robust declare to the put up mounted by Pratibha Singh, the social gathering’s state unit chief and spouse of Virbhadra Singh.
He gained the meeting election for the primary time in 2003 from Nadaun, retained the seat in 2007 however was defeated in 2012 and gained once more in 2017 and 2022.ALSO READ | How a battered and bruised Congress discovered love in Shimla
(With inputs from PTI)