Shimla: Congress veteran Virbhadra Singh, WHO helped his party seize Himachal Pradesh from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has emerged because the contender for the Chief Minister’s post.

The Congress drubbed the BJP in Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls, winning thirty six out of sixty eight seats on Thursday. The BJP, that had got forty one seats in 2007, was all the way down to twenty six. now six independents, in the main the BJP rebels, also won.

Congress’ gamble of dispatching Virbhadra Singh to Himachal Pradesh to steer the Assembly Elections campaign paid off well. The Congress veteran was sent to the craggy state at a time once he was facing corruption charges, however the election results show that Virbhdara still holds his fort in his home city.

The five-time chief minister, WHO diode the party’s campaign within the state, was nonappointive by a record margin of twenty,000 votes.

After winning the elections Virbhadra aforementioned that he had place in his “best efforts” within the polls and it had been for Sonia Gandhi to make your mind up the party’s chief minister.

“I had been given the temporary to bring the party back to power and for that I had place in my best efforts. it’s for our solon Sonia Gandhi to make your mind up WHO can become the Chief Minister,” Singh aforementioned whereas chatting with reporters.

Though, Virbbhadra has left the ultimate call to the Congress supreme headquarters, it’s unlikely that he would be unnoticed for the highest post.