Himachal Pradesh CM' s wife to contest assembly bypoll from Dehra

The Congress on Tuesday announced that Kamlesh Thakur, the wife of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, will contest the Assembly bye-election from Dehra next month.

Bye-elections to Dehra, along with the constituencies of Hamirpur and Nalagarh, will be held in Himachal Pradesh on July 10. The seats fell vacant after the independent legislators representing them resigned on March 22. The legislators, along with six Congress rebels, had voted in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Harsh Mahajan in the February 27 Rajya Sabha election.

The independent legislators – Ashish Sharma, Hoshiyar Singh and KL Thakur – joined the BJP on March 23. The Hindutva party has fielded all three of them for the bye-elections.