Himachal Pradesh Congress president Pratibha Singh claimed that anger among the electorate against Independent MLAs who vacated their seats to join the BJP led to her party's win in the Dehra and Nalagarh bypolls. The Congress won the Dehra assembly seat with Kamlesh Thakur, the wife of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, defeating BJP candidate Hoshiyar Singh by a margin of 9,399 votes.
