Will sympathy for late Virbhadra Singh lift Congress' chances in Himachal poll?
Wiped-out in the five states during recent polls, the Congress cannot hope for better days in Himachal Pradesh, slated to witness elections by the year's end. Having run -out of leadership in Himachal Pradesh, the Congress is seeing a hope in the legacy politics ahead of the polls. It precisely aims to encash the sympathy factor in favour of former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh. Six-time Chief Minister, a Congress stalwart indeed, died last year at age of 87. On Tuesday, the Congress appointed his wife Pratibha Singh, a sitting MP as new state party president, apparently unable to find a potential second line leader to lead the congress to the poll, against the well-entrenched BJP or counter AAP's buzz in the Shimla hills. The congress has also revamped the party organisational structure and appointed four working presidents for 'caste and regional balance'. A former PCC president Sukhwinder Singh, one of Chief Ministerial post aspirants has been made Chairman of the