Himachal Pradesh bypolls: High-stakes battle in Sujanpur assembly seat as old rivals swap parties
HAMIRPUR: The Sujanpur assembly by-election in Himachal Pradesh is seeing a repeat of the 2022 election with two old rivals Rajinder Singh Rana and Ranjit Singh up against each other, except that they have swapped their parties this time. While Rana is a Congress rebel who recently switched to the BJP, Singh, a retired captain, joined the Congress after Rana was given a BJP ticket for the Sujanpur bypoll.
Rana, who contested the 2022 election on a Congress ticket and defeated Singh by a slender margin of 399 votes, had raised the banner of revolt against Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu.
He was among the six Congress MLAs who voted in favour of the BJP nominee in the Rajya Sabha polls and had to face disqualification.
Three Independents had also voted for the BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan in the Rajya Sabha polls held on February 27.
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Of the six assembly constituencies where by-elections are being held due to disqualification
