Agencies
The by-polls to six assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh will be held on June 1, simultaneously with the polling for four Lok Sabha constituencies have become highly important for Congress to save its government, and for the BJP to come back to power in the assembly. The constituencies where by-elections will be held include Lahul and Spiti, Dharamshala, Sujanpur, Barsar, Gagret, and Kutlehar. All six rebel Congress MLAs are in the fray again, but on a BJP ticket. The six rebel leaders in the fray are RajinderRana, Sudhir Sharma, Devinder Kumar Bhutto, Chaitanya Sharma, Inder Dutt Lakhanpal and Ravi Thakur. If the six Congress defectors win, the BJP’s number in the Himachal Pradesh assembly will increase to 31. However, this is still short of the majority mark of 35.In such situation the support of the three independent MLAs will take the BJP to 34 members at par with the Congress. That is predominantly why these six seats matter. It can even turn the tables in the Himachal Pradesh assembly, depending on who wins how many of these six seats at stake.
