{"id":419109,"date":"2022-12-09T11:11:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T05:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=419109"},"modified":"2022-12-09T12:14:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T06:44:16","slug":"congress-himachal-chief-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/congress-himachal-chief-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress to decide Himachal Chief Minister, Pratibha Singh among other hopefuls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After clenching victory in the Himachal elections, the grand old party\u2019s next challenge is to decide on a Chief Minister. The Congress Party has called a meeting of all of its MLAs in Shima\u2019s Radisson Hotel at 3 pm where the grand old party will entrust one to become the CM of Himachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The party\u2019s win was informed on December 8, the day of vote counting for the Himachal and Gujarat assembly elections. The Congress outfit succeeded to dethrone the incumbent BJP from Himachal and profit of off the Himachal tradition of voting out the incumbency in every election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Congress party\u2019s decision to choose a CM candidate that can keep the Himachal cadre tied together comes as a big challenge for the grand old party, specially when the BJP has continuously taken a dig at the grand old party’s CM candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pratibha Singh, the wife of the former CM of Himachal Vibhadra Singh, is considered to be the favorite to continue on her husband\u2019s legacy who was voted into power for 4 terms. She, however, didn\u2019t contest the election but was amongst the leading people who ran the Congress\u2019s Himachal campaign effectively, leading to them being voted into power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singh has claimed the loyalty of all the MLAs who were loyal to her Husband priorly and hence it is reported that she is confident about being chosen as the CM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, Naduan\u2019s MLA Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu and Haroli MLA Agnihotri should be hoping to be in the race of favorites owing to their former stint as PCC chief and as Congress Legislature Party leader. Aside from the two, the former Himachal Party chief Kuldeep Singh Rathore is also a hopeful candidate for CM face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be interesting to see the grand old party\u2019s decision on the CM role as the BJP had previously questioned the Congress over its CM candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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