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Assembly Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania accepted the resignations of three independent MLAs who joined the BJP on June 3, after which by-elections are going to be held in Dehra, Hamirpur and Nalagarh. Due to which the Congress party has decided to field Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu’s wife from the Dehra seat of Himachal Pradesh. CM Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur will contest from Dehra. By-elections will be held in Dehra on July 10.
CM Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur has been a member of the Himachal Congress Committee for the last two years, but she will contest for the first time and will face BJP’s Hoshiar Singh Chambyal. Hoshiar Singh Chambyal won the seat for the first time in 2017 as an independent. On his wife getting the ticket, CM Sukhu said that in future only one person from the family will be in politics.
What did CM Sukhu say
On his wife Kamlesh Thakur getting the ticket, CM Sukhu said that this time the high command asked me for the second time to field my wife. In the first Lok Sabha elections, the high command told me that you should make your wife contest the Lok Sabha elections. I refused even then and this time when the survey was done, my wife’s name came up, I still refused.
CM Sukhu further said, I want only one person from our family to come into politics, that area is my wife’s home. He said that when the time came to take this decision, I did not want it but still when the high command has given the order, I could not ignore the order of the high command.
In future, only one person from the family will remain
CM Sukhu said that my wife is going to contest elections from there for the next three and a half years. CM Sukhu further said that when the matter of Dehra came up, I had said that Dehra is now mine, I am sending my wife there in my form, she will give impetus to development there. CM Sukhu further said that in future, only one person from the family will remain in politics.
Why are by-elections being held
In the Rajya Sabha elections in February, six Congress MLAs cross-voted, after which a political crisis arose in Himachal Pradesh, due to which the party candidate Abhishek Manu Singhvi had to face defeat. The MLAs were disqualified, after which by-elections were held on six assembly seats along with the Lok Sabha elections on June 1. BJP won two of these seats, while Congress won four seats. After which now by-elections are to be held on the seats of three independent MLAs. Currently, in the 68-member assembly, Congress has 38 MLAs, BJP has 27 MLAs and three seats are still vacant.
