Who is Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, new CM of Himachal Pradesh

Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu might be Himachal Pradesh’s new chief minister, whereas Mukesh Agnihotri has been chosen as deputy chief minister. On tenth December 2022, Chhattisgarh’s chief minister and Congress chief Bhupesh Baghel made this announcement after the assembly of the elected Congress MLA held in Shimla – the capital of the hill state. Baghel additionally knowledgeable that the leaders will take the oath of their respective posts on Sunday eleventh December 2022 at 11 am.

A decision empowering the Congress excessive command to decide on the long run chief of the legislature get together was permitted by the newly elected Congress MLAs. Accordingly, the leaders had been chosen by the excessive command. Pratibha Singh, the state get together president and the MP for Mandi, and Mukesh Agnihotri, the chief of the opposition within the departing meeting, had been the main contenders for the place of chief minister along with Sukhu, who served because the chairman of the Congress marketing campaign committee in the course of the meeting election. The new CM was introduced amid sloganeering by the supporters of Pratibha Singh, demanding to make her the CM

A quick account of the political profession of Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu

Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu is a 58-year-old four-term MLA from Nadaun in Hamirpur. In the lately held meeting elections, he defeated Vijay Kumar of the BJP by a margin of 3300 votes from the Nadaun seat. Born on twenty seventh March 2022 in Nadaun, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu is taken into account to be a detailed affiliate of Rahul Gandhi.

While the previous Congress CM of the state Virbhadra Singh was from a royal household, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu rose from the grassroots stage in politics. The new CM of Himachal Pradesh had a humble starting, and his father was a authorities worker.

He began his political profession as an activist at Himachal Pradesh University, then joined NSUI and went on to affix the Congress get together. He has contested 5 meeting polls thus far and received 4.

Sukhu has been a lifetime loyal member of the Congress get together. He joined the Congress get together as a scholar on the age of 17 and went on to develop into the state president of the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) from 1989 to 1995. He later grew to become the chief of get together State Youth Congress. He held this publish from 1998 to 2008.

He received the municipal election in Shimla twice between 1992 and 2002 and was made the secretary of the state unit of his get together in 2008. Sukhvinder Singh Sukhi is a legislation graduate. He was the president of the get together from 2013 to 2019.

In 2003, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu fought his first meeting election from Nadaun and received. He was reelected within the 2007 elections. However, he needed to face a defeat in 2012. In 2017, he managed to return to the state meeting as an elected MLA. He was chief whip of the Congress Legislature get together from 2007 to 2012.

Sukhu was the chairman of the marketing campaign committee of the Congress get together within the meeting elections and was the face of the get together within the elections. Although he’s a four-time MLA, he was by no means a minister within the state, and didn’t maintain another place like Chief Parliamentary Secretary (CPS) and even Chairman of a Board or Corporation.

After the get together’s excessive command named him because the chief minister candidate, he mentioned, “I was never in any race for any post and would not be in the future. I am a Congress party worker. I never had longed for any post. Party has given me so much and to follow the party’s order is my duty.”

Congress snatched energy from the Bharatiya Janata Party in Himachal Pradesh after a intently fought election through which the Congress get together secured 40 out of 68 meeting seats whereas the BJP bought 25 seats.