Himachal CM gets foot sprain while campaigning

Mandi (Himachal Pradesh), April 11 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Thursday got his ankle injured while campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections.
Speaking at a public meeting here, he said light heatedly: “This setback (foot sprain) will again teach me a lesson.”
Saying that he was addressing the public for the first time seated on a chair, he said: “The doctor has advised me not to set foot on the ground. But I am not taking rest.”
The Chief Minister, who is leading the BJP campaign, reached the public meeting venue by riding pillion on a scooter.
The Mandi Lok Sabha seat has been a traditional Congress bastion and it lost it for the first time in 1977.
Congress greenhorn Ashray Sharma, who learnt politics for years from his father Anil Sharma, a Cabinet Minister in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, is in the fray from Mandi. He is pitted against the BJP’s first-time MP Ram Swaroop Sharma.
Himachal Pradesh will vote for four Lok Sabha seats on May 19.
–IANS
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