By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Friday named Kishore Upadhyay, a former state Congress president who joined it on Thursday, as its candidate from Tehri meeting seat in Uttarakhand. The birthday party additionally fielded Brij Bhushan Gairola from Doiwala, from the place former Uttarakhand leader minister Trivendra Singh Rawat is the sitting MLA however has expressed his unwillingness to contest the ballot this time.
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With the announcement, the BJP has now named all its applicants for the February 14 elections to the 70-member meeting. The BJP is in energy within the state.
Unsatisfied with shrinking house for him within the Congress, Upadhyay had joined the BJP within the presence of Union Minister and the birthday party’s election in-charge for Uttarakhand Pralhad Joshi and Union Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt.