himachal pradesh key candidate

Congress leader Asha Kumari, 67, who was formerly the AICC in-charge, is up against BJP's Davinder Singh Thakur, who is the party's Chamba district president and AAP's Manish Sareen. She had won the 2017 assembly elections from the seat and the party has entrusted her to do the job once again. She had won the previous polls with a narrow margin of 556 votes. However, she would be eying to maintain her previous win with a bigger margin, whereas BJP's Thakur would be looking to win the seat coming under the Kangra Lok Sabha. Kumari won the seat in 1985, 1993, 1998 and 2003, while Renu Chadha of the BJP wrested the seat in 2007. Kumari again won from Dalhousie in 2012 and again in 2017. In 2017, Kumari got a total of 24,224 votes, while DS Thakur got 23,668 votes.