SHIMLA: The Congress’s lawmakers in Himachal Pradesh on Friday entrusted the party’s central leadership to pick the next chief minister, as factions competing for the state’s top job appeared far from a consensus a day after winning a decisive election victory.
The Congress observers Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, former chief minister of Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda and AICC in-charge for Himachal Pradesh Rajeev Shukla met the governor and submitted a list of the party’s winning candidates.
The Congress won its first assembly elections in nearly four years on Thursday in Himachal Pradesh, with 40 of the 68 seats in the assembly, keeping alive the state’s tradition of voting out the incumbent every five years. But almost immediately, multiple aspirants for the CM’s position emerged, with Mandi MP Pratibha Singh, former state unit chief Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, and former leader of Opposition Mukesh Agnihotri seen as the front-runners.
This brought back memories of similar crises that roiled the party in the two other states it is in power on its own Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
The central Congress leadership called a meeting of the newly elected lawmakers in Shimla on Friday evening. The meeting was attended by lawmakers and the Congress central observers.
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