Chief Minister and BJP leader Jai Ram Thakur, who was leading in the Seraj assembly con🐓stituency in Himachal Pradesh by a margin of over 22,000 votesജ over Chet Ram of the Congress, has won.
☂Thakur, 57, is seeking to continue as chief minister and break the tradi൩tion of ‘alternate governments’ in the state.
H��imachal Pradesh has not returned any incumbent government to power in the l🐷ast nearly four decades.
Thakur, 57, i♋s 🐽seeking to continue as chief minister and break the tradition of ‘alternate governments’ in the state.
Himachal Pradesh has not returned any incumben🦄t government to poꦚwer in the last nearly four decades.
The Seraj constituency falls under the Mandi💙 parliamentary seat, which state Congress chief Pratibha Singh represents. She won it in a by-election.
Thakur has won five elections earlier in 1998, 2003, 2007, 2012 and 2017 from Seraj, which wa☂s earlier known as the Chachiot constituency. The constituency has been dominated by the BJP for the last 25 years.
In the 2017 assembly polls, Thakur had defeated Ram by 💧a margin of over 11,000 votes.
Six contestants are in the fray for t༺he seat which has around 75,000 electors.
The other four candidates are Mahender Singh (CPI-M), Gita Nand (AAP), Indra Devi (BSP) and Narender Kumar (𒉰Independent).
Counting of votes for the 68-member assembly began at 8 am and the results of the elections will al📖so reveal whether the BJP’s all-out personalised campaign led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to buck the ‘alternative government’ trend has worked or not.
