India, Feb. 29 -- Rajinder Rana

A Bharatiya Janata Party turncoat and a three-term legislator from Sujanpur in chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's home district of Hamirpur, he was one of the leaders of the rebelling faction. A lieutenant of former CM Prem Kumar Dhumal, he quit the BJP after the party denied him ticket and joined the Congress in 2014. First elected to state assembly in 2012, he went on to defeat Dhumal on a Congress mandate in 2017. In the present government, Rana had expressed disappointment for getting a ministerial berth.

Sudhir Sharma

Dharamshala MLA Sudhir Sharma, another face leading the rebels, has previously served as the state's urban development minister in the Virbhadra Singh-led Congress government. He ...