Congress leader and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Union Minister Anurag Thakur (BJP) will campaign for their respective party candidates for the Himachal bypolls on Wednesday in the final phase of campaigning.
While Thakur will campaign in Jubbal, Baghel will campaign in Arki Solan.
The fight in Mandi is between Brigadier Khushal Thakur (retd) of the saffron party, a respected officer who played a key role in the 1999 Kargil War, and Pratibha Singh of Congress, a two-time MP from Mandi and wife of former Chief Minister Virbhadra. Lion.
Tracking sympathetic votes, Pratibha Singh, who is largely dependent on her first-time MLA son Vikramaditya Singh for campaigning, was succeeded by her late husband for his three terms as MP from Mandi and six as chief. Seeking votes on developments made during Minister.
Pratibha Singh, who lost the Mandi seat in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, is leaving no chance to remind voters that her victory in the Mandi bypoll will be “a tribute to him (Virbhadra Singh)”.
Targeting Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur for his Siraj assembly constituency, he said that Virbhadra Singh has contributed a lot in the development of the area.
He said, ‘I am saddened to see the condition of the roads. It seems that the BJP does not pay any attention to the problem of the common man.”
The seat – a prestige for the chief minister as it falls in his home district – fell vacant with the death of two-time BJP MP Ram Swaroop Sharma, who in his election campaign defeated Congress candidate Aashray Sharma, grandson of former telecom minister Sukh Ram. was defeated. Debut with a record margin.
Hitting back at the Congress candidate, Chief Minister Thakur replied: “People want a forced candidate as their MP, not a forced candidate.”
“The Congress candidate says that she did not want to contest the elections. If he is not willing, he should not contest the election.”
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