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That you couldn't get two meagre yards of land for your final resting place)," Congress MLA Vikramaditya Singh quoted a couplet by Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar to hit out at the Sukhvinder Sukhu-led government for "humiliating" his father and six-time Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh...
Vikramaditya Singh resigned as minister in the Sukhu-led Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday...
The developments in Himachal Pradesh indicate that while the Congress might have quelled the rebellion in 2022 by choosing Sukhvinder Sukhu instead of Virbhadra Singh's widow Pratibha Singh, to lead the government, the late former chief minister, or his absence, still continues to "haunt" the party...
With the fate of the Congress government hanging in balance, Vikramaditya Singh chose an apt time to remind the party that Virbhadra's family cannot be ignored and how his legacy had contributed to the party's victory in the 2022 Assembly polls...
State Congress chief Pratibha Singh was the frontrunner to take over as the chief minister, but the party leadership handed the reins to Sukhvinder Sukhu amid huge protests by supporters of the late CM's wife outside the Assembly...
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