After the victory of the Congress in the Himachal Pradesh assembly elections, the discussions regarding the name of the Chief Minister have intensified. At present, the Congress has not decided anyone’s name, but the statements of Pratibha Singh, the state president of the party and wife of former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, have increased the political stir in the state.
Pratibha Singh said on Thursday evening, ‘The MLAs will choose their leader and convey their opinion to the party high command. I am not saying that I am in the race for the post of Chief Minister, but this election has been won in the name of Virbhadra Singh. Can you ignore the legacy of his family. Please inform that a meeting of Congress MLAs is to be held in Shimla on Friday. Congress observers Bhupendra Hooda and Bhupesh Baghel are going to Shimla to decide the face of the Chief Minister.
Virbhadra Singh has been the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh six times. His wife Pratibha Singh came into active politics in the year 1998. He contested the first election from Mandi parliamentary constituency. In this, BJP’s Maheshwar Singh and his brother-in-law defeated him by about 1.25 lakh votes. Maheshwar Singh is his brother-in-law.
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Pratibha has defeated Jairam as well
After this, Pratibha tried her luck for the second time in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. In this Samdhi took revenge of the old defeat from Maheshwar and reached the Parliament. On the other hand, after becoming the Chief Minister of the state in the year 2012, Virbhadra Singh resigned from the Lok Sabha. After this, by-elections were held in 2013. In this Pratibha entered the political battle. In this election, he defeated Jairam Thakur with huge votes.
The command was received only 6 months ago
However, in the year 2014, Pratibha had to face defeat in the Modi wave. He was defeated by BJP’s Ramswaroop Sharma by more than 39 thousand votes. At the same time, on 26 April 2022, the Congress high command gave him the responsibility of the state president. In this responsibility of six months, Pratibha proved her political talent. Along with this, he has also expressed his desire by talking about the wishes of the people and the leadership of the Virbhadra family.
Government changes every 5 years
There are a total of 68 assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh. Any party needs 35 seats to form the government. Congress has won 40 seats here. That is, the formation of the Congress government is certain. In this election, BJP got 25 seats while others got three seats. At the same time, Aam Aadmi Party could not win even a single seat. The fate of 412 candidates was at stake in this election. In this state which changes the government every 5 years, this time also the trend has been repeated.
No party got chance again
Since 1985, no party has been in power for 10 consecutive years in this state. In view of this, during the 2022 assembly election campaign, the BJP had given the slogan ‘Raj nahi, rivaj badlenge’. That is, this time not the government, but insisted on changing the old tradition of changing the government. But the public did not accept this slogan of BJP and kept the trend intact.