Even as there is much reaction in the BJP against the decision to give a party ticket to Congress rebel, Ravi Thakur in the Lahaul & Spiti Assembly constituency of Himachal Pradesh for a by-poll on June 1, things are not fine in the Congress too.

Hours after the BJP announced assembly tickets to all the six former Congress MLAs, disqualified from the House, Markanda quit the party and announced that he will contest the by-poll from Lahaul and Spiti, possibly as a Congress candidate.