Lok Sabha election result 2019: BJP’s Anurag Thakur leads in Himachal’s Hamirpur by 9,500 votes - Hindustan Times
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Lok Sabha election result 2019: BJP’s Anurag Thakur leads in Himachal’s Hamirpur by 9,500 votes

Hindustan Times | By, Shimla
May 23, 2019 09:31 AM IST

Lok Sabha election result 2019: Anurag Thakur paid his obeisance in a temple in Awadevi close to his village Samirpur in Hamirpur district before visiting the counting centre.

Three-time Lok Sabha member Anurag Thakur, who contested from his traditional Hamirpur seat, was leading by 9,500 votes over Congress’ Ram Lal Thakur as votes were being counted in the Lok Sabha election on Thursday.

Lok Sabha election result 2019: The elder son of former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, Anurag carries the image of a high-flier and has been able to keep the BJP’s vote bank intact.(Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)
Lok Sabha election result 2019: The elder son of former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, Anurag carries the image of a high-flier and has been able to keep the BJP’s vote bank intact.(Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)

Anurag Thakur paid his obeisance in a temple in Awadevi close to his village Samirpur in Hamirpur district before visiting the counting centre.

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Hamirpur has been a stronghold of the BJP for more than two decades. The BJP has not lost a single election from Hamirpur since 1998. However, the loss of the party’s chief ministerial candidate Prem Kumar Dhumal in the 2017 assembly polls reflects the strong anti-incumbency against the BJP in its citadel.

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The elder son of former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, Anurag carries the image of a high-flier and has been able to keep the BJP’s vote bank intact. Ram Lal Thakur, the senior Congress leader who has been a five-term legislator and three-time former minister.

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