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  • Pritam Singh vs Harish Rawat: Congress faces faction struggle in Uttarakhand

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    DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand unit of Indian Nationwide Congress after dropping state meeting elections to rival Bhartiya Janta Birthday party isn’t in a position to take care of factionalism throughout the birthday party. 

    The 2 groups- one favoring Pritam Singh and some other former Leader Minister Harish Rawat are in tussle to get the location of chief of opposition within the state meeting the place Congress has 18 of the 70 seats whilst the BJP has general 47 MLAs.

    “Rawat ji is senior however his efficiency in those elections were disastrous. He misplaced himself through memore than 17500 votes. Then again, birthday party’s efficiency has progressed rather. However the second one line up of the leaders are not looking for him to proceed in energetic politics sabotaging their potentialities,” mentioned a birthday party insider. 

    On Monday, state in fee for the birthday party Devendra Yadav had a gathering with keep leaders together with Pritam Singh and Harish Rawat to make a decision on chief of opposition within the state meeting. 

    Few months previous to state meeting elections Singh used to be made chief of opposition getting rid of him from the location of state birthday party President.

    Previous, Dr Indira Hridayesh held the location who used to be Congress MLA from Haldwani and died in June final yr. 

    The transfer used to be noticed as diminishing Singh’s position as determination maker within the upcoming elections through Harish Rawat and putting in his applicants on key positions akin to state birthday party president. 

    With Rawat dropping some other meeting elections, political occupation of the senior Congress chief is at stake, mentioned political analysts including that the birthday party has carried out higher than 2017 elections and this will have to be used to create and advertise 2d line up of the state leaders for long run political potentialities. 

    Then again, many nonetheless imagine that the birthday party used to be in a position to upward thrust from 11 seats to 18 seats on account of Rawat’s dangle on other people.

    Rawat used to be defeated through Bhartiya Janta Birthday party candidate in Lalkuwa through greater than 17500 votes. In 2017 state meeting elections he misplaced from two seats he contested. 

    Now whispers are doing rounds that Rawat will have to be refrained from through the prime command to make manner for the second one line up of the leaders.

    After he misplaced from Kiccha and Haridwar Rural seats in 2017 many had touted that his political occupation used to be over.

    Come 2022, he was indispensable for the Congress birthday party in Uttarakhand and the birthday party contested underneath his identify.

  • ‘It harms the birthday party’: Congress chief helps Harish Rawat amid post-poll faction preventing

    Through ANI

    DEHRADUN: Amid rising blame recreation inside the Uttarakhand unit of the Congress, the birthday party’s manifesto committee chairman for just-concluded state polls Navprabhat lent his enhance to the previous Leader Minister Harish Rawat, pronouncing that it’s not proper to degree allegations of sale of tickets and posts after the ballot effects.

    Navprabhat on Thursday stated that if such allegations (through the Congress leaders within the state) have been proper, they will have to were dropped at the fore on the preliminary levels and no longer after the ballot effects.

    “If they’re levelling allegations and that individual (Harish Rawat) had performed his section in promoting tickets when keeping the most important publish, then a caution will have to were issued at the identical day. It isn’t proper to degree such allegations after the declaration of effects. It no longer most effective harms a person however all the birthday party,” Navprabhat instructed ANI.

    Previous this week, Rawat replied to the allegations, pronouncing that the costs be proved and movements, together with expulsion from the birthday party, will have to be taken towards him if they arrive true.

    “The allegation of marketing posts and birthday party tickets could be very critical. If the allegations are being levelled towards an individual who has been Leader Minister, state president of the birthday party, and the overall secretary, then the subject turns into extra critical,” Rawat had stated in a Twitter publish on Tuesday.

    “I pray to God, the Congress expels me in gentle of those allegations (if they are true),” he had added.

    After a ballot drubbing in state Meeting polls and with Lok Sabha elections simply two years away, Navprabhat known as for addressing the problem of factionalism within the birthday party ranks and stated that the ones indulging in such acts be no longer given essential posts.

    “Factionalism will have to no longer be given coverage at any price and the ones inciting such actions will have to no longer take a seat on essential posts. We will have to create one of these scenario that this stuff might be stopped. The Lok Sabha elections aren’t some distance away and we can’t also be positive with the existing scenario,” he stated.

    He stated that Congress will have to paintings on “collective management”.

    “It isn’t suitable to shape your individual faction and put it on the market. Management is at all times collective and so is accountability. The onus for defeat can’t be placed on any explicit individual. If a brand new faction used to be intentionally created in any Meeting constituency and the Congress candidate used to be harmed through any senior chief within the elections, then the birthday party will have to believe it as an overly critical allegation and motion be taken,” he stated.

    The Congress chief additionally advised the Prime Command to behavior an in-depth assessment and prepare a ‘chintan shivir’.

    On being requested about some Congress leaders being accused of serving to the Bharatiya Janata Birthday party (BJP), Navprabhat stated that this certainly happened in some constituencies.

    “This allegation can’t be proved simply however it may be assessed,” he stated.

    Navprabhat additionally emphasized the position of Congress as an Opposition birthday party within the state Meeting.

    “Chief of Opposition and president of the birthday party have essential roles within the birthday party,” he stated.

    The Congress chief stated that from 2007 to 2012, Congress used to be in Opposition within the state. “Yashpal Arya served within the birthday party as state president and after that Congress got here to energy. It is very important find out about how he labored. A assessment will have to be performed at the means birthday party operated all the way through 2007- 12 and 2017- 22,” he stated.

    The BJP retained energy in Uttarakhand, successful 47 seats. Congress, which used to be banking on anti-incumbency towards the state executive, gained 19 seats within the 70-member state Meeting.

    The Meeting elections have been held in Uttarakhand on February 14 to elect 70 participants of the Uttarakhand Legislative Meeting. The consequences have been declared on March 10.

  • Harish Rawat: At helm of shedding aspect in Uttarakhand

    His outburst compelled Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to step in and dangle frantic parleys to caused a truce between warring factions within the celebration forward of the state Meeting polls.

  • ‘Will EC take cognisance of this?’ Harish Rawat claims video presentations poll tampering

    By way of PTI

    DEHRADUN: Congress normal secretary Harish Rawat has posted a video on social media that purportedly presentations one individual at an Military centre ticking and signing a number of postal poll papers.

    Sharing the video on his Twitter maintain and Fb on Tuesday, Rawat stated, “Sharing a brief video for everybody’s data. It presentations how one guy at a military centre is ticking and signing a number of poll papers. Will the Election Fee take cognisance of this?” When requested in regards to the tweet, Rawat’s spokesman Surendra Kumar refused to reveal the supply of the video however claimed that it’s from Uttarakhand.

    The celebration has no longer made a proper grievance to the Election Fee on this regard but however it may possibly take suo motu cognisance of it, he stated.

    The Congress leaders termed it as a “mockery of democracy” and prompt the Election Fee to take cognisance of the video and act towards the in charge.

    The state Congress has retweeted Rawat’s tweet.

    Chief of Opposition within the Uttarakhand Meeting Pritam Singh stated,”On this video that makes a mockery of democracy, a person at a military centre is noticed ticking and signing a number of postal poll papers in favour of the celebration of his selection.”

    The Election Fee must take cognisance of it and act towards the in charge, Singh stated.

    Reacting to the tweet, the BJP termed it the Congress’ frustration, announcing the celebration is doing it as it may possibly see its defeat within the lately held Meeting polls.

    “The Congress is resorting to such techniques as it’s conscious that it has did not lie to other people. Within the face of its drawing close defeat the celebration which used to be speaking previous about manipulation of EVMs is now speaking about poll papers. It presentations the celebration’s frustration,” Pradesh BJP media incharge Manveer Singh Chauhan stated.

    The Military must be avoided politics and the Congress must steer clear of levelling such allegations with out checking out their authenticity, Chauhan stated.

  • Uttarakhand polls: ‘Shall be leader minister or take a seat at house’, says Congress chief Harish Rawat

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    DEHRADUN: A tussle has began inside the Uttarakhand Congress after former CM Harish Rawat stated that both he can be the state’s CM or would take a seat at house. “Both I will be able to be the CM or I will be able to take a seat at house,” Rawat had stated responding to queries associated with the chances of him being the CM if the Congress will get majority in the Meeting.

    Responding to Rawat, Pritam Singh, former state president of the celebration, stated the CM face shall be made up our minds via the top command. “As in line with custom, all MLAs of the celebration post their consent for an individual following which the central management approves it,” he stated. 

    Political analysts stated that the Congress must look ahead to the consequences as this sends out a message that celebration leaders are overconfident. Political analyst Yogesh Kumar stated: “Their leaders who sense a superb opportunity of the celebration securing a majority are environment their fielding upfront in order that they aren’t out of the sport.”

  • Uttarakhand elections: Following protest of senior chief, Congress adjustments Harish Rawat’s seat to Lalkuan

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Former Uttarakhand leader minister and Congress chief Harish Rawat will now contest the February 14 meeting elections from Lalkuan seat as a substitute of Ramnagar, which used to be introduced previous.

    The Congress modified Rawat’s seat within the 3rd record of 10 applicants introduced overdue on Wednesday.

    On this record, the birthday celebration modified the seats of 5 of its in the past nominated applicants.

    It additionally nominated Rawat’s daughter Anupama Rawat from the Haridwar rural meeting seat.

    He had unsuccessfully contested from the Kichcha and Haridwar rural meeting seats within the remaining meeting polls in 2017.

    Rawat replaces Sandhya Dalakoti for the Lalkuan seat, whilst Mahender Buddy Singh will now contest in Rawat’s position from Ramnagar meeting constituency.

    Singh used to be previous nominated by way of the birthday celebration to contest the Kaladhungi meeting seat, from the place the birthday celebration has now fielded Mahesh Sharma.

    The Congress additionally nominated Gaurav Chaudhary instead of Mohit Uniyal for the Doiwala meeting seat and Ravi Bahadur changed Barkha Rani for the Jwalapur-SC seat.

    The birthday celebration has nominated Yashpal Rana from Roorkee.

    Previous, Uttarakhand Congress operating president Ranjit Rawat has expressed displeasure of the Rawat from Nainital’s Ramnagar, a seat from the place he used to be hopeful of having the birthday celebration price tag.

    In a purported video that surfaced on social media, Ranjit Rawat is noticed wondering the birthday celebration’s transfer whilst not easy that Harish Rawat’s candidature be withdrawn.

    “Will you let anyone else (Harish Rawat) reap the harvest of a barren land which you made fertile,” he’s noticed asking birthday celebration staff within the video.

    “Any individual who needs to be made the birthday celebration’s face for the polls, claiming other folks would vote in his identify, would have had no drawback contesting from every other seat,” he stated.

    Terming the birthday celebration’s resolution ‘fallacious’, he asks the birthday celebration prime command to withdraw it.

    “If it does now not, then you make a decision what to do with anyone who regardless of having been leader minister does now not have a seat,” Rawat stated relating to Congress marketing campaign head Harish Rawat, who misplaced each the seats he contested within the 2017 Meeting polls.

    “I will be able to pass with no matter you make a decision. No selections will also be taken unilaterally in social and political existence,” Ranjit Rawat is heard announcing within the video.

    Even though Ranjit Rawat had misplaced the Ramnagar seat to the BJP candidate within the 2017 Meeting polls, he had labored exhausting within the constituency and used to be anticipating birthday celebration price tag from there this time.

    On the other hand, the Congress declared Harish Rawat as its candidate from the seat in its 2nd record on Monday, disappointing Ranjit Rawat.

  • Uttarakhand: Harish Rawat to contest from Ramnagar, Congress releases 2d record

    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.

  • Uttarakhand polls: Congress releases first listing of 53 applicants, Harak Singh Rawat misses the lower

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    DEHRADUN: Indian Nationwide Congress on Saturday overdue evening introduced the primary listing of applicants for 53 seats in Uttarakhand for upcoming meeting polls on February 14.

    The suspense stays at the seats of former Leader Minister and senior Congress chief Harish Rawat.

    The celebration has no longer denied price tag to any of its sitting MLAs. 

    The Congress had 11 MLAs of which Rajkumar from Purola meeting constituency joined the Bhartiya Janta Birthday celebration closing yr in September whilst Congress MLA from Haldwani and chief of opposition within the state legislative meeting Dr Indira Hridayesh died in June 2021. 

    Uttarakhand legislative meeting died in June closing yr restricting the numbers of Congress MLAs to 9.

    The 9 incumbent MLAs of the celebration who’ve been depended on once more to contest the elections from their respective constituencies come with the names of Manoj Rawat from Kedarnath, Pritam Singh from Chakrata, Mamta Rakesh from Bhagwanpur, Qazi Muhammad Nizamuddin from Manglaur, Mohammad Furqan Ahmed from Piran Kaliyar, Harish Singh Dhami from Dharchula, Karan Singh Mahra from Ranikhet, Govind Singh Kunjwal from Jageshwar and Adesh Singh Chauhan from Jaspur. 

    Within the first listing of 53, the celebration has given tickets to just 3 women- Godawari Thapli from Mussoorie seat, Mamta Rakesh from Bhagwanpur and Meena Sharma from Rudrapur. 

    Two Muslim applicants, each sitting MLAs from Haridwar district have additionally been fielded by way of the celebration.

    Balancing the caste equation the celebration has given tickets to twenty Thakur applicants who represent about 35% of the vote percentage within the state. 

    Bhuwan Chandra Kapri has been selected to problem Uttarakhand Leader Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami from his constituency Khatima.

    The listing comprises the names of state celebration president Ganesh Godiyal who’s fielded from Srinagar Meeting constituency, former speaker of the state meeting Govind Singh Kunjwal from Jageshwar seat, former state president of the celebration and at the moment protecting the placement of chief of opposition in celebration Pritam Singh from Chakrata seat amongst others.

    The grand previous celebration and in addition given price tag to Yashpal Arya and his son who left the BJP to enroll in the Congress closing yr.

    Yashpal Arya has been fielded from Bajpur constituency whilst his son has been entrusted by way of the celebration on Nainital seat. 

    Sumit Hridayesh, a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) and son of Indira Hridayesh, overdue chief of opposition has been fielded from Haldwani state meeting constituency by way of the celebration. 

    Birthday celebration resources instructed that the central management and shaped a two-member committee together with Mukul Wasnik, basic secretary of the AICC to finalize names on remainder of the 17 seats in subsequent two-three days. 

    Nominations for the 70 seats of the state have began on January 21, 2022. 

    Previous on January 20, the BJP introduced first listing of its applicants on 59 seats of Uttarakhand for upcoming elections of 70-member legislative meeting on February 14 denying tickets to ten sitting MLAs together with former CM’s daughter. 

    Overall 10 sitting MLAs had been denied tickets together with daughter of former Leader Minister Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri and sitting MLA from Yamkeshwar, Ritu Bhushan Khanduri and Raghunath Chauhan, sitting MLA from Almora and deputy speaker of the state meeting. 

    The listing has new names together with well-known Bollywood singer Jubin Nautiyal’s father Ramsharan Nautiyal from Chakrata meeting seat and spouse of Khanpur BJP MLA Kunwar Pranav Singh Champion’s spouse Kuwarani Devyani.

    Fresh defections give Congress main merit?

    The reinduction of Harak Singh Rawat and Yashpal Arya into the Congress is being observed as a big achieve for the celebration forward of the February 14 meeting polls in Uttarakhand.

    There used to be a dearth of giant faces within the Congress after the go out of distinguished leaders from the celebration following a rise up towards the Harish Rawat govt in 2016.

    Whilst Harak Singh Rawat, a distinguished chief from the Garhwal rejoined the celebration on Friday, Arya, a big SC chief from Kumaon department returned to the celebration in conjunction with his MLA son Sanjeev in October closing yr.

    Each Rawat and Arya are skilled leaders whose re-entry into the Congress comes as a big spice up for the celebration forward of the comping meeting polls.

    Rawat hasn’t ever misplaced in any of the 4 meeting polls held in Uttarakhand since its advent in 2000 even though he contested from 4 other seats.

    He has additionally held ministerial positions in each undivided Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

    Yashpal Arya who held key positions like that of the state meeting speaker, Pradesh Congress president and a minister below the manager ministership of each Vijay Bahuguna and Harish Rawat is in a position to enjoying a decisive function for the celebration on 12 SC seats within the state as he’s observed because the tallest Dalit chief within the state.

    The SC seats the place Yashpal Arya’s presence can shore up the Congress’ chances are high that Purola, Tharali, Ghansali, Rajpur Street, Jwalapur, Bhagwanpur, Pauri, Gangolihat, Bageshwar, Someshwar, Nainital and Bajpur.

    Arya had gained from Bajpur in 2017 on a BJP price tag with greater than 54,000 votes.

    With their go back to the celebration, it does no longer appear to be a wholly depleted aspect within the upcoming polls because it did in 2017 with maximum of its giant leaders decorating the ranks of BJP at the moment, political observers right here really feel.

    “Each leaders are seasoned politicians with a long time of enjoy. Their reinduction into the celebration will certainly brighten its possibilities additional,” Pradesh Congress basic secretary Mathura Dutt Joshi mentioned.

    (With PTI Inputs)

  • Harish Rawat’s son, daughter defy Congress’ ‘one circle of relatives, one price ticket’ system, seeks tickets to contest Uttarakhand polls

    By way of ANI

    NEW DELHI: Even after reiterating on a number of events that the ‘one circle of relatives, one price ticket’ system will likely be implemented in Congress birthday celebration, kids of veteran chief Harish Rawat are taking a look on the 2022 Uttarakhand meeting elections with prime hopes.

    Rawat’s daughter Anupama Rawat (who right now holds the location of Mahila Congress nationwide common secretary) has sought birthday celebration tickets from 3 other Meeting seats out of eleven in Haridwar constituency from the AICC screening committee for Uttarakhand,a senior birthday celebration chief concerned within the screening committee conferences advised ANI.

    Rawat’s son Virendra has sought a price ticket from one seat whilst some other son Anand has expressed his want to contest the state Meeting elections.

    Avinash Pandey heads the AICC screening committee for Uttarakhand which additionally comprises Devendra Yadav, Ganesh Godiyal, Harish Rawat, Rajesh Dharmani and Pritam Singh.

    Significantly, Virendra has submitted an utility for probably the most seats on which Anupama has implemented, assets stated.

    Except Harish Rawat’s kids, the offspring of many political heavyweights are eyeing ballot tickets.

    In the meantime, Harish Rawat on December 24 introduced that he’ll be main the Uttarakhand elections because the chairman of the marketing campaign committee.

    Sumit Hridayesh, son of overdue Congress chief Indira Hridayesh has expressed his want for a price ticket to contest the elections. In the meantime, Pritam Singh, who’s Chief of Opposition within the state meeting, has additionally sought a price ticket for his son Abhishek.

    Yashpal Arya’s son Sanjiv additionally needs to struggle the election. Significantly, either one of them rejoined the ranks of Congress after quitting the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP).