Biography

Does Prem Kumar Dhumal smoke?: Not Known.Does Prem Kumar Dhumal drink alcohol?: Not Known.Dhumal, now a politician, had started his career as a lecturer at a private college in Punjab.The sudden death of BJP leader Jagdev Chand in 1993 made him rise in the state politics, as he became the president of the party at the state level at that time.Dhumal holds the rare distinction of being the only BJP leader to have completed the statutory five-year term as the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh from 1998 to 2003.For his contribution to the developmental works of widespread networking of roads, he is often referred to as the Sadak Wala Chief Minister..For the 2017 Vidhan Sabha elections, he was selected as the Chief Ministerial candidate by the Bharatiya Janata Party.