SHIMLA: Both BJP and Congress have appointed incharges for upcoming byelections to three seats in Himachal Pradesh, including Mandi parliamentary seat and assembly seats of Fatehpur and Jubbal-Kotkhai. While BJP has appointed ministers as incharges, Congress has entrusted the job to AICC secretaries Sanjay Dutt and Gurkirat Kotli.
Party leaders from the state would work in the byelections under their supervision. Congress incharge for Himachal Pradesh, Rajeev Shukla, confirmed this. According to a letter by Shukla, Dutt and Kotli will jointly coordinate in Mandi parliamentary constituency as per allocated assembly segments, in consultation with appointed observers, including Mukesh Agnihotri, Asha Kumari, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and Ganguram Musafir.
In Jubbal-Kotkhai assembly constituency, Dutt has been given the responsibility to look after coordination with appointed observers, including Ram Lal Thakur, Col Dhani Ram Shandil, Harsh Mahajan and Harshvardhan Chauhan.