She is in the fray from Dehra, the constituency of Kangra district which was divided after delimitation in 2010 and the Congress never won this seat. The other two seats are Hamirpur and Nalagarh.
The Chief Minister campaigned aggressively in Dehra, compared to two other seats, to ensure the victory of political newcomer Kamlesh Thakur, who is in the fray against BJP candidate Hoshiyar Singh, who won the seat as an independent candidate in 2022. for the second time in a row.
In 2012, BJP's Ravinder Singh Ravi was elected from Dehra.
To woo voters, Sukhu said during the campaign: "Dehra will technically get a CM (Chief Minister) if they elect his wife."
Sukhu is a four-time MLA from Nadaun in the adjacent Hamirpur district, while his wife hails from Chamnal village, which falls under Dehra.
The main opposition party, the BJP, which has won all four seats in the recently concluded parliamentary elections, has fielded K.L. Nalagarh's Thakur and Hamirpur's Ashish Sharma, where they will take on Congress's Hardeep Bawa and Pushpendra Verma, respectively.
Both K.L. Thakur and Ashish Sharma won seats as independent candidates in 2022, before joining the BJP earlier this year.
The duo, along with Hoshiyar Singh, resigned from the Assembly in March and joined the BJP. The by-election was necessary after the president accepted his resignation on June 4.
A total of 315 polling stations have been set up for the by-elections in Dehra, Hamirpur and Nalagarh Assembly constituencies, an election official said.
As many as 217 electoral parties were sent to the polling stations.
The counting of votes will take place on July 13.
Earlier, in a major respite for the government, Congress won four out of six byelections on June 4. However, it lost all four Lok Sabha seats to the BJP for the third consecutive time.
With four new legislators, the Congress has stabilized its rule in the state. Currently, the Congress has 38 MLAs in the House of 65, while the BJP has 27.
The Chief Minister campaigned aggressively in Dehra, compared to two other seats, to ensure the victory of political newcomer Kamlesh Thakur, who is in the fray against BJP candidate Hoshiyar Singh, who won the seat as an independent candidate in 2022. for the second time in a row.
In 2012, BJP's Ravinder Singh Ravi was elected from Dehra.
To woo voters, Sukhu said during the campaign: "Dehra will technically get a CM (Chief Minister) if they elect his wife."
Sukhu is a four-time MLA from Nadaun in the adjacent Hamirpur district, while his wife hails from Chamnal village, which falls under Dehra.
The main opposition party, the BJP, which has won all four seats in the recently concluded parliamentary elections, has fielded K.L. Nalagarh's Thakur and Hamirpur's Ashish Sharma, where they will take on Congress's Hardeep Bawa and Pushpendra Verma, respectively.
Both K.L. Thakur and Ashish Sharma won seats as independent candidates in 2022, before joining the BJP earlier this year.
The duo, along with Hoshiyar Singh, resigned from the Assembly in March and joined the BJP. The by-election was necessary after the president accepted his resignation on June 4.
A total of 315 polling stations have been set up for the by-elections in Dehra, Hamirpur and Nalagarh Assembly constituencies, an election official said.
As many as 217 electoral parties were sent to the polling stations.
The counting of votes will take place on July 13.
Earlier, in a major respite for the government, Congress won four out of six byelections on June 4. However, it lost all four Lok Sabha seats to the BJP for the third consecutive time.
With four new legislators, the Congress has stabilized its rule in the state. Currently, the Congress has 38 MLAs in the House of 65, while the BJP has 27.
