BJP's Indu Bala files nomination from Himachal Pradesh
Shimla/UNI: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Indu Bala, submitted her nominations papers here on Friday – the final date for doing so – for election to the Council of States from Himachal Pradesh.
Bala accompanied with Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, BJP state president Rajiv Bindal and other members of the Cabinet, filled her nomination before the presiding officer and Vidhan Sabha Secretary Yashpal Sharma at 1300 hrs with much fanfare.
Bala is likely to get elected unopposed as BJP enjoys a majority of 44-seats in the 68-member house. The election for this one seat is scheduled to be held on March 26. The hill state has four Lok Sabha and three Rajya Sabha seats out of which one will go vacant next month.
If Congress does not contest the elections Ms Bala is likely to be declared elected after the date of scrutiny of the nomination on March 18.
BJP's central parliamentary board had on Thursday cleared Bala's name as party's candidate for the Rajya Sabha seat. She would replace Congress's Viplove Thakur, a Rajya Sabha MP from the state who is scheduled to complete her six-year term next month.
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