Himachal Pradesh chief minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu expanded his cabinet on Sunday 8 January, inducting seven ministers and six chief parliamentary secretaries. The fact that the cabinet expansion took place nearly a month after Sukhwinder Sukhu and Mukesh Agnihotri were sworn in as CM and Deputy CM respectively, is indicative of the push and pull that may have taken place within the Himachal Pradesh Congress.
In the end, the Congress leadership may have managed to balance the interests of different factions. However, there still seems to have been an imbalance in terms of region and caste.