The 73-year old Prem Kumar Dhumal, besides being Chief Minister in 1998 and 2007, had remained as an MP four times.
NEW DELHI: Prem Kumar Dhumal, who has been the Himachal Pradesh chief minister twice, was on Tuesday declared the BJP’s chief ministerial candidate by its president Amit Shah in the poll-bound state.
PM Modi said the BJP wants to make Himachal Pradesh corruption-free and undertake record development in the state. “Dhumal Ji is among our senior most leaders with rich administrative experience in Himachal.”
BJP’s focus is politics of development. We want to make Himachal corruption-free & initiate record development initiatives in the state,” the prime minister added.The BJP will have a direct contest with the ruling Congress which has already projected Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh as the campaign committee chief.
The BJP and the Congress were ruling the state alternately for close to three decades, and Dhumal was at the helm for 10 years.Virbhadra, during his five-year term, had filed several cases against Dhumal and his son Anurag Thakur, three-time BJP MP, relating to HPCA and cricket stadium at Dharamshala.
Prem Kumar Dhumal was born on 10 April 1944 in Samirpur village, Hamirpur district.Dhumal holds MA and LL.B. degrees following his education at Doaba College in Jalandhar and Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.He became a lecturer at a private college in Punjab.
