Currently the weather of shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh, is pleasant, but the political heat has increased in the atmosphere here. The area of capital shimla comes under shimla parliamentary constituency. shimla has its own identity on the world stage, hence the importance of this seat can be easily understood. shimla parliamentary constituency was once the stronghold of congress, but for the last 15 years only bharatiya janata party has been winning here. In the year 2004, Dhani ram Shandil of congress had won the election from here for the last time. In the year 2009, bharatiya janata party candidate Virendra Kashyap won and since then this seat is in the possession of BJP.
Earlier in the 2019 lok sabha elections, bharatiya janata party candidate suresh Kashyap defeated his rival congress candidate Dhaniram Shandil by a huge margin of about 3 lakh 27 thousand votes. suresh Kashyap is once again contesting from bharatiya janata party, although congress has not yet announced the name of its candidate for this seat. By declaring its candidate first, bjp has achieved a psychological victory, but the challenge still remains.
Perhaps most of the area of shimla parliamentary constituency is hilly. For the first time in the year 1977, Balak ram of Bharatiya Lok Dal was elected mp from here. After this, from 1980 to 1998, krishna Dutt Sultanpuri of congress won from here six times consecutively. krishna Dutt Sultanpuri was very close to the then chief minister Virbhadra Singh. KD Sultanpuri's son Vinod Sultanpuri has also reached the house for the first time by winning the 2022 assembly elections. There was a political upheaval in shimla parliamentary constituency in the 1999 lok sabha elections. This year, Pandit Sukhram had contested elections from Himachal Vikas congress, where Dhaniram Shandil made a big dent in the congress fort. However, Shandil later won the 2004 lok sabha elections by contesting on a congress ticket. shimla parliamentary constituency is reserved for Scheduled Castes.
