Summary:
In Hamirpur parliamentary seat, party is all set to field sitting MP Anurag Thakur but former MP Suresh Chandel is also staking claim. He has already toured all the assembly constituencies under Shimla parliamentary seat. Ashray has already launched contact campaign in the constituency hoping that the party would consider his candidature. In case Shanta Kumar choses not to contest, then many names are emerging including Gaddi leader Trilok Kapoor, Vishal Chauhan, former minister Ravinder Ravi, Rajeev Bhardwaj and Indu Goswami. In Shimla (SC) parliamentary seat, H N Kashyap is one of the strong contenders for the BJP ticket and he hopes that survey conducted on behalf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah, which pitched him as a strong contender, would help him bag the ticket..