Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu. File
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The title of the Congress candidate for the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Himachal Pradesh will be disclosed on the time of the submitting of nominations on Thursday (March 5, 2026), Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said on Wednesday (March 4, 2026).
The candidate could perhaps be from Himachal Pradesh, Mr. Sukhu advised media participants on the occasion of Holi.
March 5 is the closing date for the submitting of nominations for the upcoming Rajya Sabha election; polling will be held on March 16. The election is required as the six-three hundred and sixty five days time frame of Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) MP Indu Goswami, elected unopposed in 2020, is coming to an pause.
“There is neither any suspense nor fear over the election,” Mr. Sukhu said, adding that democracy would not be “sold like the previous time”.
With a transparent majority in the 68-member Himachal Pradesh Assembly, the Congress’s victory must be a foregone conclusion, nonetheless the celebration is horrified by its bitter journey in the outdated Rajya Sabha election, the set it lost the seat to the BJP without reference to getting 40 MLAs and the backing of three Self sustaining legislators.
In the outdated election in February 2024, BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan defeated Congress’s Abhishek Manu Singhvi after a tie as six Congress MLAs irascible-voted in favour of the BJP. The three Independents additionally voted against the Congress, and both candidates polled 34 votes every.
There are right now 40 Congress individuals and 28 BJP individuals in the Train Assembly. A gathering of the Himachal Pradesh Congress Legislative Occasion has been convened on March 5.
To this level, neither the Congress nor the BJP rep launched their candidates, and BJP leaders rep maintained that they would arena a candidate most productive if the Congress candidate used to be not from Himachal Pradesh.
In accordance with sources in the Congress, the names being regarded as by the celebration this three hundred and sixty five days embody aged Union Minister Anand Sharma, aged Train president Pratibha Singh (accomplice of the gradual aged Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh), Congress in-trace for the Train Rajni Patil, Himachal Pradesh Smartly being Minister Dhani Ram Shandil, aged Education Minister Asha Kumari, IT advisor to the Chief Minister Gokul Butail, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera, and the Chief Minister’s loyalists, alongside side his political advisor Sunil Bittu and Recommend Same outdated Anup Ratan.
Indian Formative years Congress overall secretary Nigam Bandhari’s title has additionally emerged. Mr. Bhandari hails from Kinnaur district, and used to be among the many shirtless demonstrators at basically the most contemporary AI Impact Summit in Delhi.
Printed – March 04, 2026 10:32 pm IST
