Polling for 68 legislative assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh was held on November 12, and the state recorded a 75.6 per cent voter turnout and thus breaking the 2017 record. The results are scheduled to be declared on December 8.

Mandi (Himachal Pradesh) [India], September 11 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suresh Kashyap on Sunday took a swipe at Congress, saying that Scheduled Caste (SC) is disillusioned with the Congress party now.

Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], March 6 (ANI): Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Sunday held a virtual public dialogue from Shimla in which people from all over the state participated.

Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], March 5 (ANI): A delegation of the Hatti Community of Trans-Giri area met the Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur in Shimla on Saturday demanding the "tribal status" for the community which has been pending since 1979.

Shimla Nov 24 PTI The Himachal BJP in-charge Avinash Rai Khanna on Wednesday said the state unit of the party will review the reasons for its defeat in recent bypolls and try its best to overcome its shortcomings Khanna made the remark ahead of the HP BJPs core group meeting scheduled on Wednesday evening The core group meet is to be followed by an extended core group meeting and that of the state office bearers on Thursday and then the state executive committee meeting on Friday The ruling BJP lost the Mandi parliamentary and the three assembly seats of Fatehpur Arki and Jubbal-Kotkhai in recent byelections The state BJP in-charge claimed that the party would emerge victorious in the state assembly elections to be held by the 2022 end The state BJP core group meeting chaired by its president Shimla MP Suresh Kashyap began at Peterhof here on Wednesday evening The meeting was attended by Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and Khanna among others Other participants included state BJP co-in-charge Sanjay Tandon former state BJP presidents Satpal Satti and Rajiv Bindal state organisation general secretary Pawan Rana general secretary Trilok Jamwal and Health Minister Rajiv Saizal besides party leaders Rakesh Jamwal and Trilok Kapoor PTI DJI RAX RAX

Chandigarh August 19Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur today kicked off his five-day Jan Aashirwad Yatra from Himachal Bhawan in Sector 28 hereSanjay Tandon co-incharge of Himachal Pradesh BJP city BJP president Arun Sood and Mayor Ravi Kant Sharma welcomed the Hamirpur MP on his arrival at the venueBJP HP unit president and MP Suresh Kashyap Minister Sukhram Chaudhary and former president of state BJP and MLA Rajiv Bindal were among those who participated in the processionAddressing a gathering here Thakur said his government was working for all sections of societyHe said the yatra would cover a distance of 623 km through all four Lok Sabha constituencies of Himachal Pradesh

Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], August 18 (ANI): Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Wednesday urged the people of the State to participate in the vaccination drive against Covid-19 so that the spread of this pandemic could be checked against the possible third wave.