Bharatiya Janata Party today released the first list of 62 candidates for the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha elections, including 5 women candidates. The current Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Jairam Thakur will contest from Siraj Assembly Constituency. Similarly, Anil Sharma Mandi and Satpal Singh Sati are to contest from Mandi and Una Constituencies respectively. The former state Congress chiefs Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu and Kuldeep Singh Rathore will contest the state elections from Nadaun and Theog constituencies, respectively. Himachal Vidhan Sabha has a total of 68 seats.

The voting is to be held on November 12, 2022, and the counting of the votes is to happen on December 8, 2022.

At present, the Himachal Pradesh legislative assembly has 22 Indian National Congress MLAs, while Bharatiya Janta Party has 45 and CPI(M) has one

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