Himachal bypolls: CM Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur wins Dehra, BJP’s Ashish Sharma Hamirpur
Congress candidate Hardeep Singh Bawa is ahead of the BJP candidate K L Thakur in Nalagarh, the third Assembly constituency where bypolls were held in the state, with counting going on.
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Congress candidate Kamlesh Thakur won the Dehra Assembly seat with a margin of 9,393 votes on Saturday by defeating BJP candidate and two-time former MLA Hoshyar Singh Chambyal. (Photo: Facebook)Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife and Congress candidate Kamlesh Thakur won the Dehra Assembly seat with a margin of 9,393 votes on Saturday by defeating BJP candidate and two-time former MLA Hoshyar Singh Chambyal. Meanwhile, BJP candidate Ashish Sharma won the Hamirpur seat with a margin of 1,433 votes, defeating Congress candidate Pushpendra Verma.
Congress candidate Hardeep Singh Bawa is ahead of the BJP candidate K L Thakur in Nalagarh, the third Assembly constituency where bypolls were held in the state, with counting going on.
While Kamlesh Thakur secured 32,737 votes (57.94 per cent), Chambyal only managed to get 23,338 votes (41.03 per cent), resulting in Congress winning the Dehra Assembly seat for the first time. In Hamirpur, BJP’s Sharma got 26,617 votes while Verma received 25,184 votes.
Both Dehra and Hamirpur fall under the Hamirpur Lok Sabha constituency being represented by BJP MP and former Union minister Anurag Thakur.
“Congress candidate Kamlesh Thakur has won the Dehra bye-election. BJP candidate Ashish Sharma Hamirpur Assembly. After EVM vote count, counting of postal ballots is on. Results will be out shortly,” a State Election Commission official said.
The bypolls in the three Assembly seats were necessitated after the three Independent MLAs from these seats resigned and joined the BJP in March. Assembly Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania accepted their resignations on June 3.
Kamlesh Thakur was born in Chamnal village in Nalsuha panchayat on April 2, 1970. She did her schooling in Dehra and completed her MA in Political Science from Government College, Chandigarh, in 1981. She married CM Sukhu on June 11, 1998. She has been an active member of Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) for almost two decades.
Throughout her campaign, she promised residents that if she won, another office of CM Sukhu would be opened in Dehra. To ensure her win, CM Sukhu told electors that if they elected his wife, they would be electing another chief minister.
In the 68-member Himachal Pradesh Assembly, the Congress has 38 MLAs and the BJP 27. In the 2022 Assembly elections, the Congress had won 40 seats, the BJP 25 and three seats were won by Independents.
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