The health and Family Welfare department in the biggest district of HP held a training workshops to integrate different stakeholders into a collaborative network connected with the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme.

While Congress banks on Sharma’s stature and maturity in politics, BJP hopes to cash in on his outsider tag and seek votes on PM Modi’s name.

Himachal Pradesh CM says if Prime Minister Narendra Modi can contest from Varanasi outside Gujarat, why can’t Anand Sharma contest in Kangra, which is in his home state Himachal? 

Former Union Minister, Anand Sharma may have to work very hard to strike a chord with locals in his maiden electoral battle for Lok Sabha in Kangra, yet many in Congress are enthused that he may give the party an advantage of sorts with his national-level stature and the capacity to take up issues in public against BJP’s low profile candidate Rajeev Bhardwaj.