Via PTI
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday launched its 2d record of eleven applicants for Uttarakhand meeting elections and fielded former leader minister Harish Rawat from the Ramnagar constituency.
Harish Rawat, who’s the birthday party’s marketing campaign head within the state, had unsuccessfully contested from the Haridwar-Rural and Kichcha meeting seats within the 2017 polls.
The Congress additionally fielded Anukriti Gusain Rawat from the Lansdowne meeting seat.
She is the daughter-in-law of Harak Singh Rawat, who returned to the Congress fold from the BJP on Friday.
The birthday party has up to now now not determined at the candidature of Harak Singh Rawat and is but to announce applicants for 6 extra seats.
With this, the Congress has up to now launched its applicants for 64 applicants, after the primary record of 53 applicants was once launched on Saturday night time.
Harak Singh Rawat’s insistence on a price tag for Anukriti from Lansdowne was once mentioned to were the rationale in the back of his estrangement with the BJP which in spite of everything ended in his go back to the Congress which he had give up in 2016.
Different applicants to determine within the record are Suryakant Dhasmana from Dehradun Cantt seat, Mohit Uniyal from Doiwala, Jayendra Chand Ramola from Rishikesh, Barkha Rani and Virendra Kumar Jati from reserved SC seats of Jwalapur and Jhabreda respectively, Subhash Chaudhry from Khanpur, Antriksh Saini from Laksar, Sandhya Dalakoti from Lalkuan, and Mahender Buddy Singh from Kaladhungi.
Uttarakhand is going to polls in one section on February 14 to elect its 70-member meeting.
The consequences might be out on March 10.
In its first record, the birthday party has fielded Uttarakhand Congress president Ganesh Godiyal from the Srinagar seat and Chief of Opposition within the outgoing meeting Pritam Singh from the Chakrata (ST) constituency.
Yashpal Arya, a former Speaker within the state meeting, who had not too long ago joined the Congress after quitting the BJP, has been fielded from his Bajpur-SC constituency.
Arya’s son Sanjeev Arya has additionally been fielded from the Nainital (SC) meeting seat, which he give up after resigning from the BJP at the side of his father.
Sumit Hridayesh, the son of senior Congress chief Indira Hridayesh who died in June remaining 12 months, has been fielded from Haldwani meeting seat.
The Congress has additionally retained maximum of its sitting MLAs in its two lists introduced up to now.