Shimla, July 13 (UNI) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife, Kamlesh Kumari, was declared elected from the Dehra Assembly seat, defeating the BJP candidate by 9399 votes on Saturday.
According to Chief Electroral Officer Manish Garag, Ms. Kamlesh Kumari won from the Dehra assembly constituency of Kangra district by a margin of 9399 votes.
The election commission declared Ms. Kumari the winner, who got a total 32737 votes, and BJP candidate Hoshiyar Singh, who secured 23338 votes.
In the Nalagarh assembly, Congress candidate Hardeep Singh Bawa and BJP candidate Ashish Sharma are leading.
In the Nalagarh Bye election, BJP candidate and former MLA K L Thakur is trailing by 6870 votes in the sixth round of counting against his nearest rival, INC Hardeep Singh Bawa. Thakur got 24428 votes, Bawa got 31298 votes, and BJP rebel and Independent Harpreet Saini got 11616 votes.
In Hamirpur assembly constituency, BJP candidate and former MLA Ashish Sharma is leading nearest Congress candidate Dr. Pushpendra Verma by 1433 votes in the ninth round of counting. Mr. Verma got 25184 votes, and Mr. Sharma got 26617 votes.
Counting won in the three assembly bye-elections at 8 a.m. peacefully in the district headquarters of Hamirpur, Dharmshala, and Solan. Around 200 employees were deployed for the counting of votes.
Bypoll was necessitated after three independent MLAs, Ashish Sharma from Hamirpur, Hoshiyar Singh from Dehra, and Kl Thakur, resigned from the assembly seats in March 2024 and joined the BJP.
