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BJP announces candidates for all 68 Himachal Assembly seats

Former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal (L) will contest from Sujanpur. Tribune file photo

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 18

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday announced its candidates for all 68 Assembly seats.

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Twenty-four of 28 sitting lawmakers were given ticket, including Maheshwar Singh, whose party Himachal Lokhit Party merged with the BJP.

Former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and Himachal Pradesh BJP chief Satpal Singh Satti are among the party candidates.

Read: Cong names 59 candidates for HP polls; Virbhadra to contest from Arki

The names also include Anil Sharma, Congress veteran Sukhram's son, who quit his party recently to join the BJP.

Dhumal, a two-time chief minister, will contest from Sujanpur instead of Hamirpur, which he represents in the outgoing Assembly.

Dhumal and Union Minister J P Nadda are seen as two most likely choices for the post of Chief Minister if the saffron party comes back to power in the Congress-ruled state. The BJP has not named its chief ministerial candidate.

The BJP Central Election Committee had met last week to finalise their candidates in the state. The single-phase election for the 68 Assembly seats will be held on November 9. Votes will be counted on December 18.

Constituency No.	Name of constituency	Name of candidate
1	Churah (SC)	Shri Hansraj
2	Bharmour (ST)	Shri Jiya Lal Kapoor
3	Chamba	Shri Pawan Naiyar
4	Dalhousie	Shri D.S. Thakur
5	Bhattiyat	Shri Vikram Singh Jaryal
6	Nurpur	Shri Rakesh Pathaniya
7	Indora (SC)	Smt. Reeta Dhiman
8	Fatehpur	Shri Kripal Parmar
9	Jawali	Shri Arjun Singh Thakur
10	Dehra	Shri Ravindra Singh
11	Jaswan-Pragpur	Shri Vikram Singh
12	Jawalamukhi	Shri Ramesh Dhavala
13	Jaisinghpur (SC)	Shri Ravindra Dhiman
14	Sullah	Shri Vipin Singh Parmar
15	Nagrota	Shri Arun Kumar (Kuka)
16.	Kangra	Shri Sanjay Chaudhary
17	Shahpur	Smt. Sarvin Chaudhary
18	Dharamshala	Shri Kisan Kapoor
19	Palampur	Sushree Indu Gauswamy
20	Baijnath (SC)	Shri Mulakh Raj Premi
21	Lahaul & Spiti (ST)	Dr. Ramlal Markandeya
22	Manali	Shri Govind Singh Thakur
23	Kullu	Shri Maheshwar Singh
24	Banjar	Shri Surendra Shourie
25	Anni (SC)	Shri Kishori Lal
26	Karsog (SC)	Shri Hira Lal
27	Sundernagar	Shri Rakesh Jamwal
28	Nachan (SC)	Shri Vinod Kumar
29	Seraj	Shri Jai Ram Thakur
30	Darang	Shri Jawahar Thakur
31	Jogindernagar	Shri Gulab Singh Thakur
32	Dharampur	Shri Mahendra Singh Thakur
33	Mandi	Shri Anil Sharma
34	Balh (SC)	Shri Indra Singh Gandhi
35	Sarkaghat	Col. Indra Singh Thakur
36	Bhoranj (SC)	Smt. Kamlesh Kumari
37	Sujanpur	Shri Prem Kumar Dhumal
38	Hamirpur	Shri Narendra Thakur
39	Barsar	Shri Baldev Sharma
40	Nadaun	Shri Vijay Agnihotri
41	Chintpurni (SC)	Shri Balbir Singh Chaudhary,
42	Gagret	Shri Rajesh Thakur
43	Haroli	Shri Ram Kumar Sharma
44	Una	Shri Satpal Singh Sati
45	Kutlehar	Shri Virendra Kuwar
46	Jhanduta (SC)	Shri J.R. Katwal
47	Ghumarwin	Shri Rajendra Garg
48	Bilaspur	Shri Subhas Thakur
49	Sri Naina Deviji	Shri Randheer Sharma
50	Arki	Shri Ratan Singh Pal
51	Nalagarh	Shri Krishan Lal Thakur
52	Doon	Sardar Paramjeet Singh (Pammi)
53	Solan (SC)	Shri Rajesh Kashyap
54	Kasauli (SC)	Shri Rajeev Sahjal
55	Pachhad (SC)	Shri Suresh Kumar Kashyap
56	Nahan	Shri Rajeev Bindal
57	Sri Renukaji (SC)	Shri Balbir Chauhan
58	Paonta Sahib	Shri Sukhram Chaudhary
59	Shillai	Shri Baldev Singh Tomar
60	Chopal	Shri Balbir Singh Verma
61	Theog	Shri Rakesh Verma
62	Kasumpti	Smt. Vijay Jyoti Sain
63	Shimla	Shri Suresh Bhardwaj
64	Shimla Rural	Shri Pramod Sharma
65	Jubbal-Kotkhai	Shri Narendra Bargata
66	Rampur (SC)	Shri Prem Singh Draik
67	Rohru (SC)	Smt. Shashi Bala
68	Kinnaur (ST)	Shri Tejwant Negi