No CM Candidature from INC in Gujarat, Himachal polls, Congress won’t name CM candidate, Gujarat News, Gujarat Elections 2012

04 Oct 2012: New Delhi: Congress will not project any chief ministerial candidate in the Assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. Party spokesman P C Chacko replied in the negative when asked at the AICC briefing if the party would project any CM candidate in the polls.

Generally, Congress refrains from naming a chief ministerial candidate in any state maintaining that the newly elected party MLAs in consultation with the high command would decide the issue. The last time Congress named a CM candidate was Amarinder Singh in Punjab in January this year, but the move did not succee d. Congress is expected to have a keen tussle with BJP in Narendra Modi-run Gujarat and Prem Kumar Dhumal-led Himachal Pradesh. Congress is out of power in Gujarat for the past 15 years.