Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee
Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee | |
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| President | Vinay Kumar |
| 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 | |
| ECI Status | A State Unit of Indian National Congress |
| Alliance | Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance |
| Seats in Rajya Sabha | 1 / 3
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| Seats in Lok Sabha | 0 / 4
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| Seats in Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly | 40 / 68
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| Election symbol | |
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Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC or Himachal PCC) 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 Vinay Kumar. 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. Vinay Kumar is the current president.
Structure & Composition
| S.no | Name | Designation |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Rajeev Shukla | AICC Incharge |
| 2. | Vinay Kumar[1] | 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 | 2025 | |
| 9. | Vinay Kumar | 2025 | 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) |
Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Days in office | ||||||
| (1) | Yashwant Singh Parmar | Pacchad | 8 March 1952 | 31 October 1956 | 18 years,
30 days |
1st (1952 election) | [2] | |
| Renuka | 1 July 1963 | 4 March 1967 | 1st
(Territorial Council) | |||||
| 4 March 1967 | 25 January 1971 | |||||||
| 25 January 1971 | 10 March 1972 | 2nd | ||||||
| 10 March 1972 | 28 January 1977 | 3rd | ||||||
| 2 | Thakur Ram Lal | Jubbal Kotkhai | 28 January 1977 | 30 April 1977 | 3 years
,144 days |
3rd | [3] | |
| 14 February 1980 | 15 June 1982 | 4th | ||||||
| 15 June 1982 | 7 April 1983 | 5th
(1982 election) | ||||||
| 3 | Virbhadra Singh | Jubbal Kotkhai | 8 April 1983 | 8 March 1985 | 21 years.
11 days |
[4] | ||
| 8 March 1985 | 5 March 1990 | 6th | ||||||
| Rohru | 3 December 1993 | 23 March 1998 | 8th | |||||
| 6 March 2003 | 30 December 2007 | 10th | ||||||
| Shimla Rural | 25 December 2012 | 27 December 2017 | 12th | |||||
| 4 | Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu | Nadaun | 11 December 2022 | Till Date | 14th | [5] | ||
List of Current Members of the Himachal Legislative Assembly
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 | Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu | 40 / 68
|
19 | Government |
Performance in Himachal Pradesh Lok Sabha elections
| Year | Lok Sabha | Party Leader | Seats contested | Seats won | (+/−) in seats | % of votes | Vote swing | Popular vote | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 1st | Jawaharlal Nehru | 3 | 3 / 3 (100%)
|
3 | 52.44% | 1,17,036 | Government | |
| 1957 | 2nd | 4 | 4 / 4 (100%)
|
1 | 47.32% | 1,71,591 | Government | ||
| 1962 | 3rd | 4 | 4 / 4 (100%)
|
68.65% | 1,66,749 | Government | |||
| 1967 | 4th | Indira Gandhi | 6 | 6 / 6 (100%)
|
2 | 48.35% | 3,75,578 | Government | |
| 1971 | 5th | 4 | 4 / 4 (100%)
|
2 | 75.79% | 5,16,959 | Government | ||
| 1977 | 6th | 4 | 0 / 4 (0%)
|
4 | 38.58% | 4,39,398 | Opposition | ||
| 1980 | 7th | 4 | 4 / 4 (100%)
|
4 | 52.08% | 6,53,018 | Government | ||
| 1984 | 8th | Rajiv Gandhi | 4 | 4 / 4 (100%)
|
67.58% | 9,42,657 | Government | ||
| 1989 | 9th | 4 | 1 / 4 (25%)
|
3 | 41.97% | 7,89,804 | Opposition | ||
| 1991 | 10th | P. V. Narasimha Rao | 4 | 2 / 4 (50%)
|
1 | 46.16% | 8,08,659 | Government | |
| 1996 | 11th | 4 | 4 / 4 (100%)
|
2 | 54.33% | 10,97,007 | Opposition | ||
| 1998 | 12th | Sitaram Kesri | 4 | 1 / 4 (25%)
|
3 | 41.90% | 9,97,410 | Opposition | |
| 1999 | 13th | Sonia Gandhi | 4 | 0 / 4 (0%)
|
1 | 39.52% | 8,43,225 | Opposition | |
| 2004 | 14th | 4 | 1 / 4 (25%)
|
1 | 44.24% | 11,04,066 | Government | ||
| 2009 | 15th | Manmohan Singh | 4 | 1 / 4 (25%)
|
45.61% | 12,26,933 | Government | ||
| 2014 | 16th | Rahul Gandhi | 4 | 0 / 4 (0%)
|
1 | 40.68% | 12,60,477 | Opposition | |
| 2019 | 17th | 4 | 0 / 4 (0%)
|
27.30% | 10,51,113 | Opposition | |||
| 2024 | 18th | Mallikarjun Kharge | 4 | 0 / 4 (0%)
|
41.67% | 16,66,322 | Opposition |
See also
- Indian National Congress
- Congress Working Committee
- All India Congress Committee
- Pradesh Congress Committee
Notes
- ^ A number inside brackets indicates that the incumbent has previously held office.
References
- ^ PTI (22 November 2025). "Congress appoints Vinay Kumar as new Himachal PCC chief". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ "Himachal Pradesh University". hpuniv.ac.in. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ "The Political Journey of Thakur Ram Lal: Chief Minister and Governor – Jokta Academy". Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ "Raja Virbhadra Singh: A Political Icon in Himachal Pradesh's History – Jokta Academy". Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ Vasudeva, Vikas (11 December 2022). "Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu takes oath as Himachal Pradesh CM". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 18 December 2025.