Himachal Pradesh: Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu to take oath as CM today

Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, former Congress state chief, will take oath as the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh on Sunday. The oath ceremony will take place at 1.30 pm on Sunday.
The Congressman expressed his gratitude to the Congress and the Gandhi family for providing him with this chance after being named Chief Minister.
Sukhu expressed his happiness at being chosen to serve as the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh despite coming from an ordinary background.
“I am happy that I am going to be CM despite being from an ordinary family. I am thankful to the Congress party and the Gandhi family for giving me this opportunity. My mother never stopped me from being in politics. I have reached here today because of her blessings,” said Sukhu.
Sukhu is an up-and-coming grassroots politician with extensive organisational expertise in the hill state.
Sukhu, 58, a four-time MLA, is a former state Congress president, a member of the NSUI, and the Youth Congress. From 2013 to 2019, he served as the party’s state unit president. He was known for speaking his thoughts, even when the tall party leader and six-time chief minister Virbhadra Singh did not agree.
In Himachal Pradesh, Sukhu has advocated for developing and elevating new Congress leaders.
Sukhu will fill the position of top Congress leader for the first time to come from “lower Himachal.”
The fact that Union Minister Anurag Thakur, who represents Hamirpur in parliament, is a factor in the Congress high command’s decision to support Sukhu.
Mukesh Agnihotri, another candidate for the top position, is a native of the state’s Una district and will now serve as deputy chief minister.
Sukhu, a Gandhi family supporter, hails from a middle-class household. He got involved in politics while still a student and ran for office as an NSUI candidate. He served as the state’s Indian Youth Congress and NSUI president. Elections for the Shimla Municipal Corporation were fought and won by him. Sukhu won the election for the assembly for the first time in 2003 from Nadaun.
Sukhu served as the chairman of the Congress Campaign Committee for the assembly elections, during which the party concentrated on regional concerns and made attractive promises, such as a pension plan from the past.
After Prem Kumar Dhumal of the BJP, he will be the second chief minister from the Hamirpur district.

40 seats in the state’s Assembly were won by Congress.