After a win in the Himachal Assembly elections on Thursday, Congress has called a meeting of MLAs on Friday to decide on the Chief Minister. Rajeev Shukla, in-charge of the Himachal Pradesh Congress, and supervisors Bhupesh Baghel and Bhupendra Hooda will also be present at the meeting.
The MLAs were expected to meet in Chandigarh earlier in the day, but the party changed its plans after it got a clear majority.
Congress won 40 of the state's 68 seats on Thursday. As for the BJP, which scored a landslide victory in Gujarat, it managed only 25 seats in Himachal. The state has been changing its government every five years.
As per speculations, some of the top contenders for the CM post are Pratibha Singh sitting MP from Mandi constituency Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu Himachal Congress campaign committee president Mukesh Agnihotri four-time MLA from Haroli seat in Una district Thakur Kaul Singh and Asha Kumari sister of Chhattisgarh minister T S Singh On Thursday, former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jairam Thakur gave his resignation to the Governor at He said the BJP lost the Himachal Pradesh polls by less than 1% and the Congress won with the least vote share in the state's history.