By PTI
SHIMLA: Intense lobbying continued for the chief minister’s put up on Saturday, a day after the newly elected Congress MLAs unanimously handed a decision authorising the get together president to choose the legislature get together chief.
From the morning itself, Congress MLAs made a beeline to Cecil Hotel in Shimla the place the get together’s central observers — Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda — had been staying.
Even after successful the meeting polls with a transparent mandate, the Congress is discovering it tough to fill the void created by the loss of life of six-time chief minister Virbhadra Singh and attain a consensus on the legislature get together chief who will turn out to be the CM.
Several leaders together with state Congress Chief Pratibha Singh, chief of the opposition within the outgoing Assembly Mukesh Agnihotri and head of the election marketing campaign committee Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, who’re believed to be the frontrunners for the highest put up, met the observers individually.
Pratibha Singh, 66, has indicated that she is within the operating for the chief minister’s put up, some extent additionally made by her son.
Speaking to media individuals on Saturday, Sukhu maintained that “I am not a chief minister aspirant. I am just a Congress worker and whatever decision the high command would take would be accepted.”
On Friday, the observers, together with AICC in-charge for Himachal Pradesh Rajeev Shukla met Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar and submitted an inventory of the get together’s successful MLAs to the Governor and “sought time” to formally stake declare to kind the federal government.
The Congress wrested energy from the BJP within the hill state successful 40 of the 68 meeting seats.
The polling was held on November 12 and the outcomes had been declared Thursday.
SHIMLA: Intense lobbying continued for the chief minister’s put up on Saturday, a day after the newly elected Congress MLAs unanimously handed a decision authorising the get together president to choose the legislature get together chief.
From the morning itself, Congress MLAs made a beeline to Cecil Hotel in Shimla the place the get together’s central observers — Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda — had been staying.
Even after successful the meeting polls with a transparent mandate, the Congress is discovering it tough to fill the void created by the loss of life of six-time chief minister Virbhadra Singh and attain a consensus on the legislature get together chief who will turn out to be the CM.
Several leaders together with state Congress Chief Pratibha Singh, chief of the opposition within the outgoing Assembly Mukesh Agnihotri and head of the election marketing campaign committee Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, who’re believed to be the frontrunners for the highest put up, met the observers individually.
Pratibha Singh, 66, has indicated that she is within the operating for the chief minister’s put up, some extent additionally made by her son.
Speaking to media individuals on Saturday, Sukhu maintained that “I am not a chief minister aspirant. I am just a Congress worker and whatever decision the high command would take would be accepted.”
On Friday, the observers, together with AICC in-charge for Himachal Pradesh Rajeev Shukla met Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar and submitted an inventory of the get together’s successful MLAs to the Governor and “sought time” to formally stake declare to kind the federal government.
The Congress wrested energy from the BJP within the hill state successful 40 of the 68 meeting seats.
The polling was held on November 12 and the outcomes had been declared Thursday.
