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SHIMLA, Mar 26: In a sign of increasing troubles for the ruling Congress in Himachal Pradesh<\/a>, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday fielded six disqualified Congress rebel MLAs in the Assembly by-polls, days after the joined the party.
\nAll six now disqualified Congress MLAs\u2013Rajinder Singh Rana, Sudhir Sharma, Chaitanya Sharma, Ravi Thakur, Inder Dutt Lakhanpal, and Davinder Bhutto\u2013 had cross-voted in in the Rajya Sabha election in favour of BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan against Congress<\/a>\u2019 senior leader Abhishek Mani Singhvi.
\nThe BJP has fielded Ravi Thakur from Lahaul-Spiti, Rajinder Rana from Sujanpur, Inder Dutt Lakhanpal from Barsar, Chaitanya Sharma from Gagret and Devinder Kumar Bhutto from Kutlehar.
\nApart from these six MLAs, three independents\u2013Hoshyar Singh, Ashish Sharma, and K.L. Thakur\u2013also left the Sukhu camp for the BJP, leading to Singhvi\u2019s defeat in the Rajya Sabha elections.
\nThe rebel Congress MLAs had joined the BJP on Saturday. Along with them, three independent MLAs, who resigned from their post on Friday (March 22) in the presence of BJP leaders, too, joined the party, thereby cementing the BJP\u2019s position ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha and assembly.
\nApart from elections in four Lok Sabha constituencies, Himachal Pradesh<\/a> will witness bypolls in six assembly constituencies, which were previously occupied by the rebel MLAs.
\nIn the 68-member assembly constituency, the ruling Congress was in a comfortable majority with the support of 43 MLAs\u201340 of its own and three independents\u2013after it won the 2022 assembly polls. The remaining 25 MLAs were from the BJP.
\nWith the six rebel MLAs disqualified, the strength of the house came down from 68 to 62 and the halfway mark is 32. With the loss of 6 MLAs the Congress now has 34 MLAs and the BJP with independents, has 28. The fortunes of the Congress will now rest on its ability to keep the rest of its flock together.
\nThis makes it crucial for the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu government to perform well in the bypolls.
\nThe BJP also announced the name of the candidates for the by-polls in Gujarat, Karnataka, and West Bengal.<\/p>\n

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SHIMLA, Mar 26: In a sign of increasing troubles for the ruling Congress in Himachal Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday fielded six disqualified Congress rebel MLAs in the Assembly by-polls, days after the joined the party. 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