Shimla: The Election Commission of India (ECI) said that the BJP candidate Rakesh Kumar won the Himachal Pradesh assembly election from the Sundernagar constituency on Thursday,
As per the ECI, BJP's Rakesh Kumar won the seat with a total of 29,432 votes. However, Congress Sohan Lal managed to keep 21,307 votes whereas the independent candidate Abhishek Thakur could record 14,704 votes by the time the counting of the votes in the constituency ended.
As pe the latest ECI statistics, the BJP is currently in the lead in 26 seats after winning one of the 68 assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh. The race appears to be fierce despite Congress continuing to hold a 38-seat advantage.
In Himachal Pradesh, three assembly seats are still being held by independent candidates. Hiteshwar Singh, a rebel BJP member who had previously been leading the Himachal assembly race as an independent candidate from Banjar, is now in second place after Khimi Ram, a Congress candidate, has received the most votes so far with 13273, followed by Surender Shourie, a BJP candidate, with 12261.
Hoshyar Singh from Dehra, another rebel BJP candidate, continues to lead the race with 16390, followed by Dr. Rajesh Sharma of the Congress with 9381 and Ramesh Chand of the BJP with 8198. With 21715 votes, BJP rebel KL Thakur is also in the lead in Nalagarh.
According to the ECI, Ashish Sharma, a second Independent candidate from Hamirpur, is in the lead in the Assembly district. I'm waiting for the results to be official before I make any decisions (about supporting another party), he said. Jai Ram Thakur, the state's chief minister, currently has a lead of 37227 votes against Congress candidate Chet Ram, whose vote total has increased by 9755.
Suresh Bharadwaj of the BJP, who is also battling the "outsider" label in Kasumpti, is in second place with 15540 votes while Anirudh Singh of the Congress is in first place with 23136 votes.
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