The Congress has announced Dr. Pushpendra Verma as its candidate for the Hamirpur seat on the last date of filing nominations (today).
Dr Pushpendra Verma is the son of former state industries minister Ranjeet Singh Verma. Notification for elections to the 68 Assembly seats was issued on October 17 and the last date for filing nominations was today. Scrutiny of papers will be held on October 27 (the day after tomorrow) and the last date for withdrawing nominations is October 29. Elections will be held in the state of Himachal Pradesh on November 12. However, the counting of votes will take place on December 8. Here's the full list of Congress candidates along with the assembly constituencies they are contesting from:1.Churah – SC – Yashwant Singh Khanna 2.Chamba – Neeraj Nayyar 3.Bhattiyat – Kuldip Singh Pathania 4.Dalhousie – Asha Kumari 5.Nurpur – Ajay Mahajan 6.Fatehpur – Bhawani Singh Pathania 7.Jawali – Chander Kumar 8.Jawalamukhi – Sanjay Rattan 9.Jaswan-Pragpur – Surinder Singh Mankotia 10.Nagrota – Raghubir Singh Bali 11.Shahpur – Kewal Singh Pathania 12.Dharamshala – Sudhir Sharma 13.Palampur – Ashish Butail 14.Baijnath – SC – Kishori Lal 15.Lahaul & Spiti – ST – Ravi Thakur 16.Kullu – Sunder Thakur 17.Sundernagar – Sohan Lal Thakur 18.Banjar – Khimi Ram 19.Seraj – Chetram Thakur 20.Darang – Kaul Singh Thakur 21.Mandi – Champa Thakur 22.Balh – SC – Prakash Chaudhary 23.Sujanpur – Rajinder Singh Rana 24.Bhoranj – SC – Suresh Kumar 25.Barsar – Inder Dutt Lakhanpal 26.Nadaun – Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu 27.Haroli – Mukesh Agnihotri 28.Una – Satpal Raizada 29.Jhanduta – SC – Vivek Kumar 30.Ghumarwin – Rajesh Dharmani 31.Sri Naina Deviji – Ram Lal Thakur 32.Arki – Sanjay Awasthi 33.Doon – Ram Kumar Chaudhary 34.Solan – SC – Dhani Ram Shandil 35.Pachhad – SC – Dayal Pyari 36.Kasauli – SC – Vinod Sultanpuri 37.Nahan – Ajay Solanki 38.Sri Renukaji – SC – Vinay Kumar 39.Shillai – Harshwardhan Singh Chauhan 40.Chopal – Rajneesh Kimta 41.Theog – Kuldeep Singh Rathore 42.Kasumpti – Anirudh Singh 43.Shimla Rural – Vikramaditya Singh 45.Rampur (SC) – Nand Lal 46.Jubbal – Kotkhai – Rohit Thakur 46.Rohru (SC) – Mohan Lal Brakta 47.Bharmour – ST – Thakur Singh Bharmouri 48.Indora – SC – Malender Rajan 49.Sullah – Jagdish Sapehia 51.Kangra – Surender Singh Kaku 52.Anni – SC – Bansi Lal Kaushal 53.Karsog – SC – Mahesh Raj 54.Nachan – SC – Naresh Kumar 55.Jogindernagar – Surendra Pal Thakur 56.Dharampur – Chandrashekhar 57.Sarkaghat – Pawan Kumar 58.Chintpurni – SC – Sudarshan Singh Babloo 59.Dehra – Rajesh Sharma 60.Kutlehar – Devender Kumar Bhutto 61.Bilaspur – Bumber Thakur 62.Nalagarh – Hardeep Singh Bawa 63.Shimla – Harish Janartha 64.Gagret -Chaitanya Sharma 65.Manali – Bhuvneshwar Gaur 66.Paonta Sahib – Kirnesh Jung 67.Jaisinghpur – SC – Yadvinder Goma 67.Kinnaur – ST – Jagat Singh Negi 68.Hamirpur – Pushpendra Verma
(With inputs from PTI)
