Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee

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Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee
President Pratibha Singh
Chairman Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu
( CM of HP )
HeadquartersRajiv Bhawan, Near HPTDC, Shimla-171001, Himachal Pradesh
Youth wing Himachal Pradesh Youth Congress
Women's wing Himachal Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee
Ideology
Political position Centre-left
Alliance Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
Seats in  Lok Sabha
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Seats in  Rajya Sabha
0 / 3
Seats in  Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly
40 / 68
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Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) is the state unit of the Indian National Congress, working in the state of Himachal Pradesh. It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and campaigns within the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections. The current president of the HPCC is Pratibha Singh. Y. S. Parmar, Ram Lal Thakur and Virbhadra Singh from Congress represented the state since 1951. Its head office is situated at Rajiv Bhawan in Shimla. Pratibha Singh is the current president.

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Smt. Sonia Gandhi and the Shri A. K. Antony at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the Rohtang Tunnel Project, in Manali, Himachal Pradesh on June 28, 2010 The Chairperson, National Advisory Council, Smt. Sonia Gandhi and the Defence Minister, Shri A. K. Antony at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the Rohtang Tunnel Project, in Manali, Himachal Pradesh on June 28, 2010.jpg
Smt. Sonia Gandhi and the Shri A. K. Antony at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the Rohtang Tunnel Project, in Manali, Himachal Pradesh on June 28, 2010
The Chairperson, National Advisory Council, Smt. Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation stone for the Rohtang Tunnel Project, in Manali, Himachal Pradesh on June 28, 2010 The Chairperson, National Advisory Council, Smt. Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation stone for the Rohtang Tunnel Project, in Manali, Himachal Pradesh on June 28, 2010 (1).jpg
The Chairperson, National Advisory Council, Smt. Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation stone for the Rohtang Tunnel Project, in Manali, Himachal Pradesh on June 28, 2010
The Chairperson, National Advisory Council, Smt. Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation stone for the Rohtang Tunnel Project, in Manali, Himachal Pradesh The Chairperson, National Advisory Council, Smt. Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation stone for the Rohtang Tunnel Project, in Manali, Himachal Pradesh on June 28, 2010.jpg
The Chairperson, National Advisory Council, Smt. Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation stone for the Rohtang Tunnel Project, in Manali, Himachal Pradesh

Structure & Composition

S.noNameDesignation
1. Rajeev Shukla AICC Incharge
2. Pratibha Singh President
Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee
3.Zainab ChandelPresident
Himachal Pradesh Mahila Congress
4.Nigam BhandariPresident
Himachal Pradesh Youth Congress
5.Chatter Singh ThakurPresident
Himachal Pradesh NSUI
6. Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu CLP Leader
Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly


List of presidents

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1. Viplove Thakur Viplove Thakur.jpg 20062008
2. Kaul Singh Thakur 20082012
3. Virbhadra Singh Virbhadra Singh HP.jpg 20122013
4. Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Sukhvinder Singh CM.jpg 20132019
5. Kuldeep Singh Rathore 20192022
6. Pratibha Singh The Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Shri Virbhadra Singh and his wife Smt. Pratibha Singh calling on the Vice President, Shri Mohd. Hamid Ansari, in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh on June 09, 2015.jpg 2022Incumbent

List of chief ministers of Himachal Pradesh from Indian National Congress(1963–present)

The Chief Commissioner's Province of Himachal Pradesh was formed on 15 April 1948 through integration of 30 erstwhile princely-states. In 1951, Himachal Pradesh become a Part C state, under the Government of Part C State, 1951 and was brought under a Lt. Governor with 36-member Legislative Assembly. First elections to the Assembly were held in 1952. The Indian National Congress won 24 seats to form a government under Yashwant Singh Parmar.

In 1954, Bilaspur, another part-C State, was merged with Himachal Pradesh. In 1956 it was made a Union Territory and was placed under a Lt. Governor with a Territorial Council with limited powers. In 1963, Himachal Pradesh, though being a Union Territory, was provided with a Legislative Assembly. The Territorial Council was converted into the Legislative Assembly of the Union Territory. The assembly has its first sitting on 1 October 1971. On 18 December 1970 the State of Himachal Pradesh Act was passed by Parliament and the new state came into being on 25 January 1971 as the 18th state of the Indian Union.

No [lower-alpha 1] PortraitNameConstituencyTerm of officeAssembly

(election)

FromToDays in office
(1) Yashwant Singh Parmar 1988 stamp of India.jpg Yashwant Singh Parmar Renuka1 July 19634 March 196718 years,

30 days

1st

(Territorial Council)

4 March 196725 January 1971
25 January 197110 March 19722nd

(1967 election)

10 March 197228 January 19773rd

(1972 election)

2 Thakur Ram Lal.jpg Thakur Ram Lal Jubbal Kotkhai 28 January 197730 April 19773 years

,144 days

3rd

(1972 election)

14 February 198015 June 19824th

(1977 election)

15 June 19827 April 19835th

(1982 election)

3 Virbhadra Singh HP.jpg Virbhadra Singh Jubbal Kotkhai 8 April 19838 March 198521 years.

11 days

8 March 19855 March 19906th

(1985 elections)

Rohru 3 December 199323 March 19988th

(1993 elections)

6 March 200330 December 200710th

(2003 elections)

Shimla Rural 25 December 201227 December 201712th

(2012 elections)

4 Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu.jpg Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Nadaun 11 December 2022Till Date14th

(2022 elections)

List of Current Members of the Himachal Legislative Assembly

ConstituencyElectors

(2022)

PartyMLA
No.Name
Chamba
3 Chamba 81,594 INC Neeraj Nayar
5 Bhattiyat 78,980 INC Kuldeep Singh Pathania
Kangra
7 Indora (SC)91,569 INC Malender Rajan
8 Fatehpur 87,913 INC Bhawani Singh Pathania
9 Jawali 99,572 INC Chander Kumar
12 Jawalamukhi 78,144 INC Sanjay Rattan
13 Jaisinghpur (SC)84,018 INC Yadvinder Goma
15 Nagrota 88,867 INC Raghubir Singh Bali
17 Shahpur 87,723 INC Kewal Singh Pathania
19 Palampur 75,481 INC Ashish Butail
20 Baijnath (SC)89,135 INC Kishori Lal
Lahaul and Spiti
21 Lahaul and Spiti (ST)24,876 INC Ravi Thakur
Kullu
22 Manali 73,488 INC Bhuvneshwar Gaur
23 Kullu 89,600 INC Sunder Singh Thakur
Mandi
32 Dharampur 79,958 INC Chandershekhar
Hamirpur
36 Bhoranj (SC)81,134 INC Suresh Kumar
37 Sujanpur 73,922 INC Rajinder Singh Rana
39 Barsar 86,273 INC Inder Dutt Lakhanpal
40 Nadaun 93,107 INC Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu
Una
41 Chintpurni (SC)82,686 INC Sudarshan Singh Babloo
42 Gagret 82,774 INC Chaitanya Sharma
43 Haroli 86,273 INC Mukesh Agnihotri
45 Kutlehar 85,163 INC Devender Kumar Bhutto
Bilaspur
47 Ghumarwin 88,527 INC Rajesh Dharmani
Solan
50 Arki 93,852 INC Sanjay Awasthy
52 Doon 68,266 INC Ram Kumar Chaudhary
53 Solan (SC)85,238 INC Dhani Ram Shandil
54 Kasauli (SC)67,434 INC Vinod Sultanpuri
Sirmaur
56 Nahan 83,561 INC Ajay Solanki
57 Sri Renukaji (SC)72,961 INC Vinay Kumar
59 Shillai 74,831 INC Harshwardhan Chauhan
Shimla
61 Theog 83,275 INC Kuldeep Singh Rathore
62 Kasumpti 65,713 INC Anirudh Singh
63 Shimla 48,071 INC Harish Janartha
64 Shimla Rural 76,267 INC Vikramaditya Singh
65 Jubbal-Kotkhai 71,566 INC Rohit Thakur
66 Rampur (SC)74,838 INC Nand Lal
67 Rohru (SC)73,580 INC Mohan Lal Brakta
Kinnaur
68 Kinnaur (ST)58,836 INC Jagat Singh Negi

List of all Rajya Sabha members of Himachal Pradesh from Indian National Congress

NameDate of appointmentDate of retirementTerm
C L Varma 03/04/195202/04/19581
03/04/196402/04/19702
Lila Devi 03/04/195602/04/19621
Shiva Nand Ramaul 03/04/196202/04/19681
Satyavati Dang03/04/196802/04/19741
Roshan Lal 03/04/197002/04/19761
03/04/197602/04/19822
03/04/198202/04/19883
Jagannath Bharadwaj 10/04/197209/01/19781
Gian Chand Totu03/04/197402/04/19801
Usha Malhotra 03/04/198002/04/19861
Anand Sharma 10/04/198409/04/19901
03/04/200402/04/20102
03/04/201602/04/20224
Chandan Sharma 03/04/198602/04/19921
Sushil Barongpa 03/04/198802/04/19941
Sushil Barongpa 03/04/199402/04/20002
Chandresh Kumari 10/04/199609/04/20021
Viplove Thakur 10/04/200609/04/20121
10/04/201409/04/20202

Timeline

Sukhvinder Singh SukhuJai Ram ThakurPrem Kumar DhumalVirbhadra SinghShanta KumarThakur Ram LalYashwant Singh ParmarHimachal Pradesh Congress Committee

Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

YearParty leaderSeats wonChange
in seats
Outcome
1952 Yashwant Singh Parmar
24 / 36
NewGovernment
1967
34 / 60
Increase2.svg10Government
1972 Thakur Ram Lal
53 / 68
Increase2.svg 19Government
1977
9 / 68
Decrease2.svg 44Opposition
1982
31 / 68
Increase2.svg 22Government
1985 Virbhadra Singh
58 / 68
Increase2.svg 27Government
1990
9 / 68
Decrease2.svg49Opposition
1993
52 / 68
Increase2.svg 43Government
1998
31 / 68
Decrease2.svg 21Opposition
2003
43 / 68
Increase2.svg 12Government
2007
23 / 68
Decrease2.svg 20Opposition
2012
36 / 68
Increase2.svg 13Government
2017
21 / 68
Decrease2.svg15Opposition
2022 Prathiba Singh
40 / 68
Increase2.svg19Government

See also

Notes

  1. A number inside brackets indicates that the incumbent has previously held office.

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