Uttarakhand / Haridwar : Senior Congress leader and former MLA Ambareesh Kumar passed away

⏺️The daughter lit the fire at the Kankhal crematorium
⏺️Officers and thousands of workers of various parties including Congress were present

Senior Congress leader and former MLA Ambareesh Kumar passed away late on Tuesday night at his Jwalapur residence. His death caused a wave of mourning among Congress workers and their fans. 72-year-old Ambareesh Kumar, who was recognized as a big pillar of politics in Haridwar, had been ill for a long time. He was cremated on Wednesday at the Kankhal crematorium. His daughter Priyavanda offered him a fire. State Congress President Pritam Singh reached Kankhal crematorium and paid tribute to Ambareesh Kumar. Expressing condolence, Pritam Singh said that Chanakya of Uttarakhand’s politics is gone. Be it the problems of farmers, workers or state problems, Ambareesh Kumar always fought like a pillar and used to be successful. Due to his death, many Congress workers in Haridwar are feeling helpless. The loss caused to the Congress by his death. Its fulfillment is not possible in the near future. Mangalore MLA Kazi Nizamuddin, Bhagwanpur MLA Mamta Rakesh, BJP MLA Pradeep Batra, Sanjay Gupta, senior Congress leader Dhirendra Pratap, former municipal president Satpal Brahmachari, Congress state general secretary Sanjay Paliwal, former district panchayat president Rao Afaq Ali, cabinet minister Swami Yatheeswaranand, BJP State President Madan Kaushik, Former Union Minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Mayor Anita Sharma, Metropolitan Congress President Sanjay Agarwal, Labor leader Murli Manohar, Dehradun President Lalchand Sharma, Parvadoon President Sanjay Kishore, Former Municipality President Pradeep Chaudhary, Former Mayor Manoj Garg, Congress Rural District President Dharampal Singh, Former MLA Shahzad, Former State Minister Ram Singh Saini, Jwalapur Congress City President Yashwant Saini, Mayapur Block President Ravi Kashyap, Kankhal Block President Shubham Agarwal, Central Haridwar Block President Shailendra Singh, Kailash Pradhan, Chaudhary Baljit Singh , Advocate Arvind Sharma, Rajbir Singh Chauhan, Jatashankar Srivastava, Vibhash Mishra, BS Tejian, Mayor Representative Ashok Sharma, Rajan Mehta, Dharampal Contractor, Master Jagpal Singh Saini, Rajiv Chaudhary, Naman Agarwal, Councilor Mahaveer Vashist, Councilor Sahabuddin, Councilor Israr Ahmed, State General Secretary Satish Kumar, Former District President Vikas Chaudhary, Rachit Agarwal, Rajbir Singh, Balram Rathod, Former MoS Naeem Qureshi, Tahir Hasan, Councilor Meherban Khan, Councilor Rajiv Bhargava, Thakur Suresh Singh, Shiv Kumar Kashyap, Ashish Sharma, Roshan Lal Member District Panchayat, Amardeep Roshan, Varun Balian, Nitin Teshawar, Himanshu Bahuguna, Ravish Bhatija, Pradeep Agarwal PCC, Mahesh Pratap Rana, Valid MR Sharma , Dr. Dinesh Pundir, Jitendra Singh, Satyendra Vashisht, Wasim Salmani, Councilor Sohail Qureshi, Zafar Abbasi, Councilor Anuj Singh, JP Singh, Councilor Udayveer Chauhan, Jatashankar Srivastava, Harjit Singh, Jitendra Vidyakul, Subhash Kapil, Gulshan Nayyar , RBL Verma, Som Chauhan, Manoj Mahant, Neeraj Mangal, Nitin Mangal, Punit Garg, Satish Jain, Navez Ansari, Dr. Vishal Garg, Karthik Sharma, Haji Rafi Khan, Satish Dawde, Rajendra Bhanwar, Sunil Singh, Bhumesh Shrikunj, Chhatrapal Chauhan, Sanjeev Nayyar, Chokhelal, Councilor son Puneet Kumar, Fayaz Ali, Vishal Rathore, in business Dal President Sanjeev Choudhary, CO City Abhay Pratap, Former Chairman of Safai Karamcharis Commission Kiran Pal Valmiki, Members Poonam Valmiki, Puneet Goyal, Sanjeev Nayyar, Kamal Brijwasi, Shahnawaz Qureshi, Yashpal Rana, Satyendra Vashistha, Sunny Malhotra, Sandeep Agarwal, BP Chauhan, Hariram Kumar, Subhash Chand, Wasim Salmani, Neetu Sharma, Rajendra Bhardwaj, Ashish Bhardwaj, office bearers of Yuva Bharat Sadhu Samaj, Ganga Sabha President and General Secretary, BJP leader Naresh Sharma, Leader of Opposition in Municipal Corporation Sunil Agarwal, including Congress and BJP councilors Officers and workers of all political and social organizations were present.

Former MLA and Congress leader Ambrish Kumar, popularly known as Bhai Ji in Haridwar, has a long history of political life. Ambrish Kumar has also received the Best MLA Award in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Amrish Kumar had also contested in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as a Congress candidate from Haridwar Lok Sabha seat. In a political career spanning 50 years, 72-year-old Ambareesh Kumar has contested eight elections. How strong his political ground has been in Haridwar is shown by the fact that he came second in 6 out of eight elections. His political journey started with Congress and again brought him to Congress through Janata Dal and Samajwadi Party. He is the second such leader of Uttarakhand Congress after Harish Rawat. Who has contested the elections under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Born in Haridwar’s textile merchant family, Ambrish Kumar joined the Congress in 1971, influenced by Indira Gandhi. Within a year, in 1972, he became the President of the Youth Congress of Haridwar. His inclination towards Congress was inherited from his family.