Shimla: Congress veteran Virbhadra Singh is likely to take oath as the next Himachal Pradesh chief minister Dec 25, a senior party leader said here Sunday. This will be his sixth term in the post. “The Congress wants that the process of the government formation is done at the earliest to [...]

Shimla: Virbhadra Singh will be the next chief minister of Himachal Pradesh, a senior Congress leader announced here Saturday. This will be his sixth term in the post. The Congress leadership late one Saturday evening cleared his name to head the government in the state, party general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi [...]

Shimla (Vidhan Sabha): Fresh from a victory in the elections, congress legislators assembled in the ruling lounge to formally elect the new chief minister but ended up adopting a unanimous resolution authorizing party president Sonia Gandhi to appoint the new incumbent. The meeting started late and both senior leaders Virbhadra [...]

 Shimla: This is the second article of ‘Know Your MLA’ Series. Read first part here. The senior most MLA of the state is Vidya Stokes (84) from Theog whereas the youngest MLA is Yadvinder Goma (26) from JaisinghPur constituency. Goma is an engineer who graduated in the year 2009. Eleven [...]

Shimla: Ahead of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting today to elect Himachal Pradesh’s next chief minister, one of the party’s newly elected legislators has gone underground after being booked in a murder case.  Ram Kumar Chaudhary, a first-time MLA from Doon constituency in Solan district, is one of the four [...]

 Shimla: With BJP’s mission repeat having fallen on an unimpressed electorate in Himachal Pradesh, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today submitted his resignation before Governor Urmila Singh, after holding poor selection of candidates as one of the main reasons for the party defeat in the assembly polls, the results of which [...]

Shimla: Even after leading the Congress to victory in the Himachal Pradesh assembly polls Thursday, the sailing may not be smooth for state party president Virbhadra Singh to become chief minister for the sixth time. The former union minister’s rivals in the party are said to be now teeming up against [...]

New Delhi: Narendra Modi’s third successive victory in the Gujarat assembly polls is expected to pitch him for a more prominent role in the BJP, possibly as head of its campaign for the next general elections, while some party leaders even expressed their preference for him to be projected as the [...]

New Delhi: Congress leaders Thursday looked at positives from the results of assembly polls after the party scored a clear victory in Himachal Pradesh but failed to check Narendra Modi from scoring a hat-trick in Gujarat. Party leaders contended the results showed that people were not angry with the United [...]

Shimla: The Congress party today claimed it has the numbers for a majority in the Himachal Pradesh assembly and form the next government in the state. Himachal Congress president Virbhadra Singh said here Congress president Sonia Gandhi would decide on who would lead the new government. “I have left it to [...]