The first big test Congress’s Himachal CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu faces is that of ensuring formation of his Cabinet smoothly while balancing caste and regional equations amid pulls and pressures from various party factions.
P Chidambaram writes: The elections hold lessons for both winners and losers. The common lesson is that the winner had a strong party organisation, dedicated cadres, a spirited campaign and micro-management.
Sukhu was appointed chief of the state unit of the NSUI in 1989, helmed the state unit of the Youth Congress (1998-2008), got elected as a councillor twice (1992-2002) before entering the Vidhan Sabha as an MLA in 2003, headed the state Congress committee (2013-2019). And now, Chief Minister.
Sukhu, a three-time MLA from the Nadaun constituency, had emerged as one of the three candidates in the fray for the chief ministerial post following the party’s win in the Assembly elections.
An analysis of the affidavits filed by the candidates who have won reveals that nine of them are below the age the 40 with youngest being 28-year-old Chaitanya Sharma, a Congress candidate who from the Gagret Assembly constituency defeating sitting BJP MLA Rajesh Thakur by a margin of 15,685 votes
On Friday, the newly elected Congress MLAs met in Shimla and unanimously passed a resolution authorising AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge to pick their leader who will be the next Himachal Pradesh chief minister
The key question: why did the change-seekers -- they ended up being around 45% -- not look at the Congress as the alternative, in a state traditionally bipolar?
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