It is believed that Congress Veteran Harish Rawat and the BJP’s youthful betting Pushkar Singh Dhami are keeping their fingers crossed for Monday when Uttarakhand is voting in the election for 70 of its Assembly members.
Both the Congress and the BJP have faced political instabilities throughout the state over the last two decades following it was split from Uttar Pradesh.
The task of the BJP is to fight against the anti-incumbency, and the political trend of the government in power that has been that was voted out of the state.
Uttarakhand has been home to 11 Chief Ministers in the past two decades.
The BJP has put forward 11 cabinet Ministers and Madan Kaushik in the election arena.
Dhami is running for the third time his Khatima Assembly seat against the Congress candidate Bhuwan Chandra Kapri.
Speaker of the Assembly Prem Chand Aggarwal contests from Rishikesh against Congress in the race against Congress Jayendra Chand Ramola.
The Congress campaign in Uttarakhand is headed by a veteran of the polls, Harish Rawat, who is also the head of the party’s electoral committee for Uttarakhand.
The BJP has a candidate in the current MLA and the party’s President Madan Kaushik from the Haridwar seat.
Congress candidate Satpal Brahmachari is challenging him. But each BJP, along with Congress, have stayed clear of naming their chief ministerial candidates for the upcoming elections.
Haldwani Assembly seat, where Congress has fielded Sumit Hridayesh. After losing the last three elections on the run, Rawat is now contesting from a different assembly seat this time.
He has been granted an opportunity to run for his Lalkuwa seat, and he will contest against Mohan Singh Bisht of BJP.
He is the son of the former Congress chief Indira Hridayesh who passed away last year. In addition to Rawat, Congress will be attentively watching the outcome of this election.
The Congress Sumit will take on the BJP’s Jogendra Pal Singh Rautela, who has been twice Haldwani mayor and is also known to have a large supporter base in the area.
The two-party battle will be fierce among veterans is expected since the Congress has announced its state party leader Ganesh Godiyal in a contest with the MLA and Minister Dhan Singh Rawat in The Srinagar seat.
The newest entry in Uttarakhand elections, Aam Aadmi Party, has announced candidates for the entire 70 Assembly seats and its Chief Ministerial candidate of Ajay Kothiyal.
Kothiyal is being fielded in his Gangotri Assembly seat in opposition to Congress state vice-president Vijaypal Singh Sajwan.
In addition, the BJP has put forward Suresh Singh Chauhan in the seat.
The AAP is betting on the image of cleanliness Kothiyal, the National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal’s popularity, and the development work done by the party in its capital city of the nation.
The BJP, after changing three Chief Ministers across the last five years, is betting on its National Leader and its Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity by appealing to have an anti-incumbency vote.
On the other hand, Congress claimed that the BJP of throwing the state into political chaos by shifting Chief Ministers.
The voting begins at 7 am. It will close at 5 pm after the election is completed on Saturday.
It will take just 48 hours before the voters begin to cast their ballots. 632 candidates are participating on the ballot for 70 Assembly seats.
The count of votes will occur on the 10th of March.
