Five Points to know about Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Himachal Pradesh's New Chief Minister

On the Chief Minister's chair, Sukhvinder Sukhu had been less forthright than Pratibha Singh, and simply stuck to the "high command will decide" line.

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The official announcement is awaited. Earlier today, Pratibha Singh's supporters in Shimla protested after they came to know she won't be the Chief Minister.

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Here's your 5-point guide on the Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister-Designate

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He was replaced as state unit chief in 2019 by Kuldeep Rathore reportedly in a compromise against factionalism.

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He won the municipal election twice in Shimla, and was then made secretary of the state unit in 2008

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Graduating to a full-time political career, he was president of the state Youth Congress in the 2000s.

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Vastly different in origins from the ex-royal Virbhadra Singh, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, as an activist at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, led the NSUI state unit in the late 1980s.

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Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, a four-time MLA from Nadaun in Hamirpur district, is a lawyer by education and emerged through the ranks from the Congress wing NSUI.

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