Himachal Congress reaches clear consensus on 25 Assembly seats, read the first likely list of candidates

The Newz Radar

The Congress high command is learnt to have cleared the names of 35 candidates for the Assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh, scheduled towards the end of the year.

In New Delhi on Tuesday, the Congress central election committee, which med under party president Sonia Gandhi, brainstormed on 46 of the 68 Assembly seats.

The consensus reportedly could not be reached in 11 of the 46 seats while the 35 were reportedly finalised. The meeting that started at 10.30 am went on till 3.00 pm. Now, the screening committee will meet again in the first week of October for the selection of candidates for the remaining 33 seats.

After forming a consensus in the meeting, the names will be sent to the central election committee for final approval. At the meeting held on Tuesday, it was decided to re-nominate the present 20 MLAs. Apart from this, it has been agreed to give the ticket to three former ministers Kaul Singh Thakur from Drang, Chander Kumar from Jawali and Prakash Chaudhary from Balh.

Even though Congress has not released the list yet, the names that have been finalised after in-camera discussion are as follows:
Seat, Candidate
1. Haroli, Mukesh Agnihotri
2. Nadaun, Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu
3. Srinaina Devi, Ramlal Thakur
4. Una, Satpal Raizada
5. Solan, Dhani Ram Shandil
6. Shillai, Harshvardhan Chauhan
7. Renukaji, Vinay Kumar
8. Kinnaur, Jagat Singh Negi
9. Dalhousie, Asha Kumari
10. Palampur, Ashish Butail
11. Kullu, Sunder Singh Thakur
12. Kasumpti, Anirudh Singh
13. Sujanpur, Rajendra Rana
14. Badsar, Indradutt Lakhanpal
15. Shimla Rural, Vikramaditya Singh
16. Rampur, Nand Lal
17. Rohru, Mohan Lal Brakta
18. Jubbal Kotkhai, Rohit Thakur
19. Arki, Sanjay Awasthi
20. Fatehpur, Bhawani Singh Pathania
21. Drang, Kaul Singh Thakur
22. Chintpurni, Kuldeep Kumar
23. Lahaul-Spiti, Ravi Thakur
24. Balh, Prakash Chaudhary
25. Chander Kumar, Jawali