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  • Will put into effect uniform civil code if voted to energy: Uttarakhand CM Dhami

    Via Categorical Information Carrier

    DEHRADUN: Amid the hijab row in Karnataka, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday promised to put into effect the uniform civil code (UCC) within the state if the BJP comes again to energy. The CM mentioned putting in a panel to arrange the draft of the UCC can be one of the vital first issues the following govt will do. “The UCC will supply for a similar regulations referring to marriages, divorce, land belongings, and inheritance for all,” Dhami mentioned. 

    The announcement precipitated well-liked grievance. Whilst former CM Harish Rawat mentioned it displays the BJP’s desperation, senior Congress chief Kapil Sibal suggested him to get prison recommendation sooner than making such bulletins in order that he doesn’t finally end up embarrassing himself and his personal birthday celebration. 

  • Uttarakhand polls: Opposition’s Motto is ‘Divide and Loot’, says PM Narendra Modi

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    DEHRADUN: High Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launching an assault at the opposition stated that the opposition events imagine in the primary of ‘divide everybody, loot in combination’. 

    The PM used to be addressing ‘Vijay Sankalp Sabha’ at in Almora. 

    The PM outlining the advance works carried out by way of the BJP citing initiatives price Rs 17,000 crores that have been inaugurated within the state stated that this decade belongs to Uttarakhand and advised folks to vote for the BJP.

    PM Modi including the central executive has proposed ‘Parvatmala Scheme’ to construct ropeways for hilly spaces stated that the BJP goverment within the heart and the state have just right intentions.

    “On this Union Funds, we have now proposed ‘Parvatmala Scheme’ to construct ropeways for hilly spaces. We will be able to construct fashionable roadways and shipping infrastructure within the state. This decade belongs to Uttarakhand, don’t let this chance move,” added the PM. 

    The PM additionally thanking the folk and appreciating the collection stated that the large turnout signifies that Uttarakhand has made up its thoughts about balloting as soon as once more for the “double engine” executive.

    Launching an assault on Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi the PM stated that now not a unmarried Congress chief is coming to Uttarakhand best the brother-sister (Rahul Gandhi-Priyanka Gandhi Vadra) duo are campaigning as a result of they do not need to save the rustic, they just need to save a circle of relatives (Gandhi circle of relatives).

    “Simplest the duo of brother and sister are available Uttarakhand barring some other senior chief from the grand outdated celebration. It is because they do not need to save the rustic, they only care about one circle of relatives. Lately, their very own leaders don’t need to be with the celebration. Then, how can they provide anything else to you?,” the PM stated. 

  • Congress family-centric birthday celebration, most effective BJP works for all sections of society: JP Nadda tells Uttarakhand electorate

    JP Nadda mentioned BJP works for all sections of society and appealed to other people to vote it again to energy in Uttarakhand for uninterrupted construction.

  • Upcoming Uttarakhand polls struggle between creators of state and the ones averse to it: Modi

    He accused the former Congress governments in Uttarakhand and on the Centre of no longer permitting building within the state because it was once “created towards the celebration's needs”.

  • Unhealthy climate: BJP cancels PM Narendra Modi’s digital rally in Uttarakhand

    Through PTI

    DEHRADUN: Top Minister Narendra Modi’s digital rally, which used to be scheduled to be held in Uttarakhand on Friday, used to be cancelled because of inclement climate, the BJP mentioned.

    The verdict to cancel the development used to be taken on the organisational degree after assessing the elements stipulations, the birthday party’s media in-charge for the state Manveer Singh Chauhan stated. Consistent with Uttarakhand BJP vice-president Devendra Bhasin, the development shall be rescheduled quickly.

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    When requested how inclement climate may be able to have an effect on a rally which the top minister used to be to deal with nearly, Bhasin stated preparations were made at 56 puts, throughout 14 Meeting segments of Almora Parliamentary constituency, to house 1,000 other people each and every.

    On the other hand, going forward with the development would have led to inconvenience to the collection, given the elements stipulations, he stated. Spaces in Uttarakhand above 3,000 metres were experiencing snow fall whilst the ones in decrease spaces are witnessing rains since Thursday morning.

    Meeting elections within the state shall be hung on February 14.

  • Uttarakhand polls: Congress manifesto filled with false guarantees, says BJP

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    DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand BJP on Wednesday mentioned the Congress manifesto launched by way of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra right here for the meeting polls within the state is filled with false guarantees.

    Describing the manifesto as a “pack of lies”, Uttarakhand BJP president Madan Kaushik mentioned the Congress has achieved precisely the other of what it has promised within the record whilst distributing tickets within the state for the elections.

    In spite of promising to offer 40 consistent with cent of tickets to ladies, the celebration cancelled the candidatures of a few ladies it had fielded, together with Dalit candidate Barkha Rani and Sandhya Dalakoti from Lalkuan, Kaushik alleged.

    “Priyanka Gandhi will have to first provide an explanation for this anomaly,” he added.

    Kaushik mentioned Chhattisgarh Leader Minister Bhupesh Baghel used to be right here just lately to announce that LPG costs might not be allowed to pass Rs 500 if the Congress used to be elected to energy.

    “He will have to first provide an explanation for why LPG cylinders are promoting for Rs 1,000 in his state,” the BJP chief mentioned.

    Former Rajasthan deputy leader minister Sachin Pilot comes right here and talks about unemployment, however the unemployment fee in his state is upper than Uttarakhand, Kaushik added.

    In Rajasthan, the velocity of unemployment is 20.3 consistent with cent, whilst it’s 5.6 consistent with cent in Uttarakhand, the BJP chief mentioned.

  • Uttarakhand polls: ‘You need to vote for excellent governance’, says Amit Shah in Rudraprayag

    By means of PTI

    DEHRADUN: Union House Minister Amit Shah on Friday held a door-to-door marketing campaign and addressed ballot conferences in Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag district, interesting to other folks to deliver the BJP again to energy within the state to verify excellent governance for any other 5 years.

    Shah, who additionally presented prayers on the Rudranath temple, dispensed pamphlets record the paintings finished via the BJP govt throughout its tenure and what the birthday celebration plans to do throughout the following 5 years if it returns to energy. He additionally focused the former Congress dispensation, describing it as a central authority of corruption and scams.

    Addressing a meeting of ex-servicemen, Shah mentioned, “You gave your blessings to us in 2014 and 2019 via giving all of the 5 Lok Sabha seats to us. Then you definately gave us a large mandate in 2017, giving us 57 out of the 70 meeting seats. You’ve observed the paintings finished via us. You need to vote for excellent governance for any other 5 years in order that the massive tasks already underway are finished.”

    The minister mentioned that the warriors from Uttarakhand are protective the frontiers of the rustic from Ladakh to Kutch with nice valour and determination and they have got to turn the similar determination in protective democracy as smartly.

    Bringing up Chardham all-weather street, Rishikesh-Karnaprayag rail line, reconstruction of Kedarnath and Badrinath as primary infrastructure tasks on which really extensive growth has been made within the final 5 years, Shah mentioned an entire five-year tenure of Leader Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, who has the blessings of the Narendra Modi govt on the Centre, will see their final touch.

    Dhami took over because the Uttarakhand leader minister in July final yr as his predecessor Tirath Singh Rawat resigned months after taking rate as the pinnacle of the state. Shah described the previous leader minister Harish Rawat-led Congress govt as a central authority of corruption and scams.

    He additionally challenged Rawat, who’s contesting from Lalkuan meeting constituency in Nainital district, to turn the infrastructure paintings finished throughout his tenure. The elections to the 70-member Uttarakhand Meeting will likely be hung on February 14.

    The counting of votes will likely be taken up on March 10.

  • Uttarakhand elections 2022: BJP fields ex-state Congress president Kishore Upadhyay from Tehri

    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.

  • 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.