The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its list of 62 candidates for the Himachal Pradesh Assembly election 2022.
The ruling party held a meeting of its Central Election Committee on Tuesday and finalised the list of candidates for the HP polls 2022. BJP leaders Anil Sharma and Satpal Singh Satti have been fielded from Mandi and Una constituencies respectively.
Anil Sharma is the son of former Union minister Sukh Ram. The BJP has dropped some incumbent MLAs.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur will contest from the Seraj Assembly constituency and file his nomination papers
The BJP’s list of candidates for the HP election 2022 was finalised in a meeting held at the party headquarters that was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, party’s national organisation general secretary BL Santosh, Union Ministers Bhupendra Yadav and Sarbananda Sonowal, former Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
The Election Commission has started the nomination process for Himachal Pradesh elections and the last date for filing nominations is October 25.
The voting for the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections 2022 will be held on November 12 and HP election results will be declared on December 8.
The hill state has 68 seats in the Assembly.
According to the Election Commission, there are 55,07,261 general electors, 67,532 service voters. In total there are 55,74,793 electors as per electoral rolls.
Photo Electoral Rolls will be used during the General Election of Himachal Pradesh. Photo Electoral Rolls and Electors Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) is one of the documents for establishing the identity of elector at the time of voting. All out efforts are being made to ensure 100 per cent delivery of EPIC to all newly registered electors before the last date of filing nomination, the poll panel informed.
