It’s a classic case of a captain scoring a century despite his side losing and the opposing team registering a huge win but its skipper getting out for a duck.
The Himachal Pradesh electoral ground is no cricket pitch but the tale of victory and defeat is one that Congress’ chief minister Virbhadra Singh and BJP’s Prem Kumar Dhumal will surely identify with.
Winning and losing, the two leaders have probably realised, are but two sides of the same curious coin. While Congress leader Virbhadra Singh won his seat, his party lost the state. And, in a neat flip, the BJP wrested the state from the Congress but its chief ministerial candidate Dhumal was trounced.
Both are Thakur leaders, both are former chief ministers, both were hoping for another stint at leading the state. But the chief minister’s chair has evaded both this election.
While the BJP was poised to win 44 of 68 seats, the Congress was likely to get 21 seats.
Singh, a six-time chief minister, a scion of the Rampur- Bushahr royal family, and often called ‘rajaji’ for his royal lineage, registered a win from Arki despite the Congress receiving a drubbing.
Dhumal, a two-time chief minister who belongs to a farmer family, lost from Sujanpur to friend-turned-foe Rajinder Rana, though his party won a decisive victory in the hill state.
Dhumal’s close aide Ravinder Kumar Ravi and his MP son Anurag Thakur’s father-in-law Gulab Singh Thakur also lost their elections.
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