Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee Explained

Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee
Alliance:Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
President:Pratibha Singh
Youth:Himachal Pradesh Youth Congress
Women:Himachal Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee
State Seats Name:Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Headquarters:Rajiv Bhawan, Near HPTDC, Shimla-171001, Himachal Pradesh
Chairman:Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu

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.

Structure & Composition

S.noNameDesignation
1.Rajeev ShuklaAICC Incharge
2.Pratibha SinghPresident
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 SukhuCLP Leader
Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly

List of presidents

S.noNamePortraitTerm
1.Viplove Thakur20062008
2.Kaul Singh Thakur20082012
3.Virbhadra Singh20122013
4.Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu20132019
5.Kuldeep Singh Rathore20192022
6.Pratibha Singh2022Incumbent

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.

NoPortraitNameConstituencyTerm of officeAssembly(election)
FromToDays in office
(1)Yashwant Singh ParmarRenuka1 July 19634 March 196718 years,30 days1st(Territorial Council)
4 March 196725 January 1971
25 January 197110 March 19722nd(1967 election)
10 March 197228 January 19773rd(1972 election)
2Thakur Ram LalJubbal Kotkhai28 January 197730 April 19773 years,144 days3rd(1972 election)
14 February 198015 June 19824th(1977 election)
15 June 19827 April 19835th(1982 election)
3Virbhadra SinghJubbal Kotkhai8 April 19838 March 198521 years.11 days
8 March 19855 March 19906th(1985 elections)
Rohru3 December 199323 March 19988th(1993 elections)
6 March 200330 December 200710th(2003 elections)
Shimla Rural25 December 201227 December 201712th(2012 elections)
4Sukhvinder Singh SukhuNadaun11 December 2022Till Date14th(2022 elections)

List of Current Members of the Himachal Legislative Assembly

ConstituencyElectors(2022)PartyMLA
No.Name
Chamba
3Chamba81,594INCNeeraj Nayar
5Bhattiyat78,980INCKuldeep Singh Pathania
Kangra
7Indora (SC)91,569INCMalender Rajan
8Fatehpur87,913INCBhawani Singh Pathania
9Jawali99,572INCChander Kumar
12Jawalamukhi78,144INCSanjay Rattan
13Jaisinghpur (SC)84,018INCYadvinder Goma
15Nagrota88,867INCRaghubir Singh Bali
17Shahpur87,723INCKewal Singh Pathania
19Palampur75,481INCAshish Butail
20Baijnath (SC)89,135INCKishori Lal
Lahaul and Spiti
21Lahaul and Spiti (ST)24,876INCRavi Thakur
Kullu
22Manali73,488INCBhuvneshwar Gaur
23Kullu89,600INCSunder Singh Thakur
Mandi
32Dharampur79,958INCChandershekhar
Hamirpur
36Bhoranj (SC)81,134INCSuresh Kumar
37Sujanpur73,922INCRajinder Singh Rana
39Barsar86,273INCInder Dutt Lakhanpal
40Nadaun93,107INCSukhvinder Singh Sukhu
Una
41Chintpurni (SC)82,686INCSudarshan Singh Babloo
42Gagret82,774INCChaitanya Sharma
43Haroli86,273INCMukesh Agnihotri
45Kutlehar85,163INCDevender Kumar Bhutto
Bilaspur
47Ghumarwin88,527INCRajesh Dharmani
Solan
50Arki93,852INCSanjay Awasthy
52Doon68,266INCRam Kumar Chaudhary
53Solan (SC)85,238INCDhani Ram Shandil
54Kasauli (SC)67,434INCVinod Sultanpuri
Sirmaur
56Nahan83,561INCAjay Solanki
57Sri Renukaji (SC)72,961INCVinay Kumar
59Shillai74,831INCHarshwardhan Chauhan
Shimla
61Theog83,275INCKuldeep Singh Rathore
62Kasumpti65,713INCAnirudh Singh
63Shimla48,071INCHarish Janartha
64Shimla Rural76,267INCVikramaditya Singh
65Jubbal-Kotkhai71,566INCRohit Thakur
66Rampur (SC)74,838INCNand Lal
67Rohru (SC)73,580INCMohan Lal Brakta
Kinnaur
68Kinnaur (ST)58,836INCJagat Singh Negi

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

NameDate of appointmentDate of retirementTerm
C L Varma03/04/195202/04/19581
03/04/196402/04/19702
Lila Devi03/04/195602/04/19621
Shiva Nand Ramaul03/04/196202/04/19681
Satyavati Dang03/04/196802/04/19741
Roshan Lal03/04/197002/04/19761
03/04/197602/04/19822
03/04/198202/04/19883
Jagannath Bharadwaj10/04/197209/01/19781
Gian Chand Totu03/04/197402/04/19801
Usha Malhotra03/04/198002/04/19861
Anand Sharma10/04/198409/04/19901
03/04/200402/04/20102
03/04/201602/04/20224
Chandan Sharma03/04/198602/04/19921
Sushil Barongpa03/04/198802/04/19941
Sushil Barongpa03/04/199402/04/20002
Chandresh Kumari10/04/199609/04/20021
Viplove Thakur10/04/200609/04/20121
10/04/201409/04/20202

Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

YearParty leaderSeats wonChange
in seats
Outcome
1952Yashwant Singh ParmarNew
196710
1972Thakur Ram Lal 19
1977 44
1982 22
1985Virbhadra Singh 27
199049
1993 43
1998 21
2003 12
2007 20
2012 13
201715
2022Prathiba Singh19

See also