Election Commission announces dates for Himachal Pradesh Assembly Polls 2022, check details

Himachal Pradesh Assembly Elections 2022: EC has announced the schedule for assembly polls in Himachal Pradesh today. The dates of Gujarat's Assembly Election are still awaited.

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Assembly Elections 2022 Live Updates: The Election Commission (EC) has announced the schedule for the assembly polls for Himachal Pradesh today (October 14, 2022). EC held a press conference on Friday (October 14) in the national capital to announce the dates of the election at Plenary Hall, Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi at 3 pm. The dates of the Gujarat assembly polls are still awaited.

The term of the Gujarat Assembly ends on February 18, 2023, while the term of the Himachal House will end on January 8, 2023.

The 14th Gujarat Legislative Assembly election was held on December 9 and 14 in 2017 to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). The votes were counted on 18 December. In the results declared for all the 182-seated Gujarat Assembly, BJP won 99 seats, Congress wins 77, 1 seat was won by NCP while Bhartiya Tribal Party and Independent candidate won 2 and 3 seats respectively. In the upcoming state elections, The AAP is looking to set foot in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.

Himachal Pradesh voted to elect its legislative assembly on November 9, 2017. In the 68-member Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defeated the Congress Party and won 44 seats while Congress secured only 21 seats in 2017. In Himachal Pradesh, the Congress is gearing up to challenge the BJP.

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14 October 2022

18:58 IST

Leaders who shifted from Congress to BJP

Pawan Kumar Kajal and Lakhvinder Singh Rana, both Congress MLAs, joined the BJP in August 2022. Kajal was the chairperson of the Congress Working Committee. The defection of two senior Congress officials was viewed as a major setback for the party just months before the Assembly election.

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Politicians joining BJP

Anoop Kesari, the AAP's Himachal Pradesh state president, joined the ruling BJP on April 9, 2022, along with organisational general secretary Satish Thakur and Una president Iqbal Singh.