We will consider works completed in public courts throughout the last 15 months: CM of Himachal on the LS elections

Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said that the Congress-led administration in Himachal Pradesh has addressed long-standing issues, dealt with financial difficulties, weathered a monsoon calamity, and experienced political unrest. The people would be made aware of the work completed during the last 15 months.

Speaking to reporters here, Sukhu stated that the names of the Congress candidates for the parliamentary elections will also be revealed. This comes a day after the BJP named Anurag Thakur and Suresh Kashyap, two sitting MPs from Hamirpur and Shimla, in its second list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

“During the last 15 months, we have only encountered difficulties on the fronts of the economy, natural disasters, and politics and have settled outstanding matters. He remarked, “The BJP government just hung on to the problems, never trying to find solutions.”

Prior to the Lok Sabha elections, the chief minister has been traveling the state and making announcements. He recently said that women between the ages of 18 and 59 will get Rs 1,500 per month, and on Thursday, a notice to that effect was released.

Sukhu had said that the Indira Gandhi Pyari Behna Sukh Samman Nidhi Yojna, which would benefit over five lakh women yearly, would cost a total of Rs 800 crore.

On Wednesday, the state cabinet also approved Himachal Pradesh Rajya Chayan Aayog’s decision to proceed with the Junior Officer Assistant (Information Technology) results announcement. For quite some time, the JOA (IT) applicants who took the test had been waiting for the results to be announced.

Rajinder Rana and Sudhir Sharma, two of the six renegade Congress MLAs, have been bringing up the subject of these JOA (IT) candidates and young people looking for work in general. They had cast their votes in favor of BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan in the just finished Rajya Sabha elections.

Himachal Pradesh has four Lok Sabha seats: Shimla, Mandi, Hamirpur, and Kangra. The BJP has not yet named its candidates for the Mandi and Kangra seats, but on Wednesday it revealed their slate for Hamirpur and Shimla (Schedule Caste).

To yet, the Congress has not declared a candidate.

The four-time MP from Hamirpur, Minister of Information and Broadcasting Thakur is the son of former chief minister and BJP leader P K Dhumal, while Kashyap, the former president of the BJP state, will run for the Lok Sabha seat a second time from Shimla.

All four Lok Sabha seats were won by the BJP in 2019 with a commanding majority. Krishan Kapoor, the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, secured the victory with a margin of 4,77,623 votes in Kangra, 4,05,459 votes in Mandi, 3,99,572 votes in Hamirpur, and 3,27,515 votes in Shimla for Ram Swaroop Sharma.

However, Sharma’s passing prompted byelections for the Mandi seat in 2021. Pratibha Singh, the wife of former chief minister Virbhadra Singh and current state leader of the Congress, won the seat by a margin of 8,766 votes as a result of the outpouring of grief after her husband’s passing.