BJP Candidate List For U’khand Out; CM Dhami To Contest From Khatima
Mumbai: BJP on Thursday announced candidates for 59 out of 70 seats for Uttarakhand polls. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami will contest from the Khatima seat which he currently holds.
Col Vijay Rawat (Retd), the younger brother of India’s first Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, joined the BJP on January 19 in the presence of CM Dhami, state in-charge and BJP national general secretary Dushyant Gautam and Uttarakhand BJP president Madan Kaushik.
BJP’s list of candidates for Uttarakhand election:
Pushkar Singh Dhami from Khatima
Durgeshwar Lal from Purola (SC)
Kedar Singh Rawat from Yamunotri
Bhopal Ram Tamta from Tahrali (SC)
Pritam Singh Panwar from Dhanualti
Trilok Singh Cheema from Kashipur
Vinod Chamoli from Dharampur
Savita Kapoor from Dehradun Cantt
Ganesh Joshi from Mussoorie
Premchand Aggrawal from Rishikesh
Madan Kaushik from Haridwar
Pradeep Batra from Roorkee
Kunwarani Devyani from Khanpur
Swami Yatishwaranand from Haridwar (Rural)
Raj Kumar Pori from Pauri (SC)
Dileep Singh Rawat from Lansdowne
Sarita Arya from Nainital (SC)
Kailash Sharma from Almora
Ram Singh Kalra from Bhimtal
Diwan Singh Bisht from Ramnagar
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Notably, former Uttarakhand CM and BJP leader Trivendra Singh Rawat have expressed reluctance to contest the 2022 Uttarakhand assembly elections.
In the letter to BJP president JP Nadda, Rawat said: “Leadership has changed in the state and the party got a youth leader Pushkar Singh Dhami. In the changed political scenario, I should not contest the 2022 Assembly polls.”
Uttarakhand is slated to go to the polls in a single-phase on February 14.
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