Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee

Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) is the state unit of the Indian National Congress, working in the state of Himachal Pradesh. It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and campaigns within the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections. The current president of the HPCC is Pratibha Singh. Y. S. Parmar, Ram Lal Thakur and Virbhadra Singh from Congress represented the state since 1951. Its head office is situated at Rajiv Bhawan in Shimla. Pratibha Singh is the current president.

Smt. Sonia Gandhi and the Shri A. K. Antony at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the Rohtang Tunnel Project, in Manali, Himachal Pradesh on June 28, 2010

The Chairperson, National Advisory Council, Smt. Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation stone for the Rohtang Tunnel Project, in Manali, Himachal Pradesh on June 28, 2010

The Chairperson, National Advisory Council, Smt. Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation stone for the Rohtang Tunnel Project, in Manali, Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee
President	Pratibha Singh
Chairman	Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu (CM of HP)
Headquarters	Rajiv Bhawan, Near HPTDC, Shimla-171001, Himachal Pradesh
Youth wing	Himachal Pradesh Youth Congress
Women's wing	Himachal Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee
Ideology	Populism Social liberalism Democratic socialism Social democracy Secularism
ECI Status	A State Unit of Indian National Congress
Alliance	Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
Seats in Lok Sabha	0 / 4
Seats in Rajya Sabha	0 / 3
Seats in Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly	40 / 68
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Structure & Composition

S.no	Name	Designation
1.	Rajeev Shukla	AICC Incharge
2.	Pratibha Singh	President Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee
3.	Zainab Chandel	President Himachal Pradesh Mahila Congress
4.	Nigam Bhandari	President Himachal Pradesh Youth Congress
5.	Chatter Singh Thakur	President Himachal Pradesh NSUI
6.	Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu	CLP Leader Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly

List of presidents

S.no	Name	Portrait	Term
1.	Yashwant Singh Parmar		1948	1950
2.	Virbhadra Singh		1985	1992
(2).	Virbhadra Singh		1993	2003
3.	Vidya Stokes		2003	2006
4.	Viplove Thakur		2006	2008
5.	Kaul Singh Thakur		2008	2012
(2).	Virbhadra Singh		2012	2013
6.	Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu		2013	2019
7.	Kuldeep Singh Rathore		2019	2022
8.	Pratibha Singh		2022	Incumbent

List of chief ministers of Himachal Pradesh from Indian National Congress(1963–present)

The Chief Commissioner's Province of Himachal Pradesh was formed on 15 April 1948 through integration of 30 erstwhile princely-states. In 1951, Himachal Pradesh become a Part C state, under the Government of Part C State, 1951 and was brought under a Lt. Governor with 36-member Legislative Assembly. First elections to the Assembly were held in 1952. The Indian National Congress won 24 seats to form a government under Yashwant Singh Parmar.

In 1954, Bilaspur, another part-C State, was merged with Himachal Pradesh. In 1956 it was made a Union Territory and was placed under a Lt. Governor with a Territorial Council with limited powers. In 1963, Himachal Pradesh, though being a Union Territory, was provided with a Legislative Assembly. The Territorial Council was converted into the Legislative Assembly of the Union Territory. The assembly has its first sitting on 1 October 1971. On 18 December 1970 the State of Himachal Pradesh Act was passed by Parliament and the new state came into being on 25 January 1971 as the 18th state of the Indian Union.

No[a]	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of office			Assembly (election)
				From	To	Days in office
(1)		Yashwant Singh Parmar	Pacchad	8 March 1952	31 October 1956	18 years, 30 days	1st (1952 election)
			Renuka	1 July 1963	4 March 1967		1st (Territorial Council)
				4 March 1967	25 January 1971
				25 January 1971	10 March 1972		2nd (1967 election)
				10 March 1972	28 January 1977		3rd (1972 election)
2		Thakur Ram Lal	Jubbal Kotkhai	28 January 1977	30 April 1977	3 years ,144 days	3rd (1972 election)
				14 February 1980	15 June 1982		4th (1977 election)
				15 June 1982	7 April 1983		5th (1982 election)
3		Virbhadra Singh	Jubbal Kotkhai	8 April 1983	8 March 1985	21 years. 11 days
				8 March 1985	5 March 1990		6th (1985 elections)
			Rohru	3 December 1993	23 March 1998		8th (1993 elections)
				6 March 2003	30 December 2007		10th (2003 elections)
			Shimla Rural	25 December 2012	27 December 2017		12th (2012 elections)
4		Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu	Nadaun	11 December 2022	Till Date		14th (2022 elections)

List of Current Members of the Himachal Legislative Assembly

Constituency		Electors (2022)	Party	MLA
No.	Name
Chamba
3	Chamba	81,594	INC	Neeraj Nayar
5	Bhattiyat	78,980	INC	Kuldeep Singh Pathania
Kangra
7	Indora (SC)	91,569	INC	Malender Rajan
8	Fatehpur	87,913	INC	Bhawani Singh Pathania
9	Jawali	99,572	INC	Chander Kumar
12	Jawalamukhi	78,144	INC	Sanjay Rattan
13	Jaisinghpur (SC)	84,018	INC	Yadvinder Goma
15	Nagrota	88,867	INC	Raghubir Singh Bali
17	Shahpur	87,723	INC	Kewal Singh Pathania
19	Palampur	75,481	INC	Ashish Butail
20	Baijnath (SC)	89,135	INC	Kishori Lal
Lahaul and Spiti
21	Lahaul and Spiti (ST)	24,876	INC	Ravi Thakur
Kullu
22	Manali	73,488	INC	Bhuvneshwar Gaur
23	Kullu	89,600	INC	Sunder Singh Thakur
Mandi
32	Dharampur	79,958	INC	Chandershekhar
Hamirpur
36	Bhoranj (SC)	81,134	INC	Suresh Kumar
37	Sujanpur	73,922	INC	Rajinder Singh Rana
40	Nadaun	93,107	INC	Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu
Una
41	Chintpurni (SC)	82,686	INC	Sudarshan Singh Babloo
42	Gagret	82,774	INC	Chaitanya Sharma
43	Haroli	86,273	INC	Mukesh Agnihotri
45	Kutlehar	85,163	INC	Devender Kumar Bhutto
Bilaspur
47	Ghumarwin	88,527	INC	Rajesh Dharmani
Solan
50	Arki	93,852	INC	Sanjay Awasthy
52	Doon	68,266	INC	Ram Kumar Chaudhary
53	Solan (SC)	85,238	INC	Dhani Ram Shandil
54	Kasauli (SC)	67,434	INC	Vinod Sultanpuri
Sirmaur
56	Nahan	83,561	INC	Ajay Solanki
57	Sri Renukaji (SC)	72,961	INC	Vinay Kumar
59	Shillai	74,831	INC	Harshwardhan Chauhan
Shimla
61	Theog	83,275	INC	Kuldeep Singh Rathore
62	Kasumpti	65,713	INC	Anirudh Singh
63	Shimla	48,071	INC	Harish Janartha
64	Shimla Rural	76,267	INC	Vikramaditya Singh
65	Jubbal-Kotkhai	71,566	INC	Rohit Thakur
66	Rampur (SC)	74,838	INC	Nand Lal
67	Rohru (SC)	73,580	INC	Mohan Lal Brakta
Kinnaur
68	Kinnaur (ST)	58,836	INC	Jagat Singh Negi

List of all Rajya Sabha members of Himachal Pradesh from Indian National Congress

Name	Date of appointment	Date of retirement	Term
C L Varma	03/04/1952	02/04/1958	1
	03/04/1964	02/04/1970	2
Lila Devi	03/04/1956	02/04/1962	1
Shiva Nand Ramaul	03/04/1962	02/04/1968	1
Satyavati Dang	03/04/1968	02/04/1974	1
Roshan Lal	03/04/1970	02/04/1976	1
	03/04/1976	02/04/1982	2
	03/04/1982	02/04/1988	3
Jagannath Bharadwaj	10/04/1972	09/01/1978	1
Gian Chand Totu	03/04/1974	02/04/1980	1
Usha Malhotra	03/04/1980	02/04/1986	1
Anand Sharma	10/04/1984	09/04/1990	1
	03/04/2004	02/04/2010	2
	03/04/2016	02/04/2022	4
Chandan Sharma	03/04/1986	02/04/1992	1
Sushil Barongpa	03/04/1988	02/04/1994	1
Sushil Barongpa	03/04/1994	02/04/2000	2
Chandresh Kumari	10/04/1996	09/04/2002	1
Viplove Thakur	10/04/2006	09/04/2012	1
	10/04/2014	09/04/2020	2

Timeline

Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

Year	Party leader	Seats won	Change in seats	Outcome
1952	Yashwant Singh Parmar	24 / 36	New	Government
1967		34 / 60	10	Government
1972	Thakur Ram Lal	53 / 68	19	Government
1977		9 / 68	44	Opposition
1982		31 / 68	22	Government
1985	Virbhadra Singh	58 / 68	27	Government
1990		9 / 68	49	Opposition
1993		52 / 68	43	Government
1998		31 / 68	21	Opposition
2003		43 / 68	12	Government
2007		23 / 68	20	Opposition
2012		36 / 68	13	Government
2017		21 / 68	15	Opposition
2022	Prathiba Singh	40 / 68	19	Government

See also

• Indian National Congress
• Congress Working Committee
• All India Congress Committee
• Pradesh Congress Committee

Notes

1. A number inside brackets indicates that the incumbent has previously held office.