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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

2019 Himachal Pradesh Lok Sabha Election in a single phase in the last and seventh phase on May 19,2019

Number of Lok Sabha seats in state: 4
Number of voters in the state: 51, 54, 854 (as on Jan 21, 2019)
Voter turnout in 2014: 74.6 %
Number of assembly seats: 68


Ruling party: Bharatiya Janata Party
Party wise break-up of assembly seats:
BJP: 44, Congress -21, CPI (M) – 1, Independents 2





The ruling BJP is hoping to replicate its 2014 performance when it swept all four Lok Sabah seats in the state while the Congress is trying its best to make sure it is not 4-0 this time. The Ruling BJP  


Key leaders: Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur (BJP), Union Health Minister Jagat Parkash Nadda, (BJP), former Union Minister and Lok Sabha member Shanta Kumar (BJP), three -time Lok Sabha member and former BCCI President Anurag Thakur (BJP), former chief minister Virbhadra Singh(Congress), Congress legislator party Leader Mukesh Agnihotri(Congress), state Congress chief Kuldeep Singh Rathore, former PCC chief and Nadaun legislator Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, all India Congress committee secretary and in charge for party affairs Punjab Asha Kumari, Rakesh Singha (CPIM)

Key issues: Allegations of lack of industrial development, demand for increase in import duty on fruits, poor road infrastructure and no railway expansion, declining trend in tourism industry.

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