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Four left in the race for Hamirpur seat
Staff Correspondent
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Chief Minister’s son is Bharatiya Janata Party candidate
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SHIMLA: Only four candidates are left in the race for the coming Lok Sabha by-election from Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh on May 22 after the withdrawal of nominations on Thursday.
They are Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal’s son Anurag Thakur from the BJP, former Congress MLA O. P. Rattan, R. C. Kaundal of the Bahujan Shakti Party and Amin Chand, an Independent candidate.
The Hamirpur Lok Sabha constituency covers 17 Assembly segments of Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Una and parts of Kangra district.
The seat was vacated by Chief Minister Dhumal when he fought the Assembly elections recently.
Congress charge
Although the Congress is accusing the BJP of practising favouritism, the later is calling it an internal matter. “A party like the Congress has no moral right to raise this issue,” said Satpal Jain, BJP’s in charge of Himachal.
He has also taken a strong exception to “unparliamentarily comments” made by former Chief Minister and Congress leader Virbhadra Singh who has described Mr. Dhumal as an arrogant Chief Minister during the election campaign.
However, the BJP by all accounts is much ahead in the campaign so far and the Congress, a badly divided house, is still engaged in a war of egos.
Top Congress leaders have failed to campaign jointly for the party candidate.
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