Uttarakhand : Congress candidate Bhuvan Chandra Kapri will contest against CM Pushkar Singh Dhami from Khatima
Congress has released the first list of 53 candidates for the Uttarakhand assembly elections late on Saturday night. In this list, the names of the biggest leader of the state Congress Harish Rawat and Harak Singh Rawat, who recently joined the Congress, and his daughter-in-law Anukreethy Gusain are not included. Let us tell you that before this BJP has also released the list of its candidates.
Congress General Secretary Mukul Wasnik released the list at 12.45 pm. The party removed all the nine sitting MLAs Pritam Singh, Manoj Rawat, Mamta Rakesh, Qazi Nizamuddin, Furqan Ahmed. Harish Dhami, Karan Mahara, Adesh Singh Chauhan and Govind Singh Kunjwal have been fielded from the same seats from where they are MLAs.
Against Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, Congress has given ticket to Bhuvan Chandra Kapri from Khatima and Yashpal Arya, who recently joined Congress from BJP, from Bajpur and his son Sanjeev Arya from Nainital.
Indira Hridayesh’s son Sumit has got ticket from Haldwani. At the same time, Karan Mahra has been made a candidate from Ranikhet. Surendra Singh Negi has been given ticket from Kotdwar seat in place of Dr. Harak Singh Rawat. The list of remaining 17 candidates can be released after Sunday afternoon.
Here are 53 candidates of Congress
1- Purola (SC)- Malchand
2-Yamunotri- Deepak Bijalwan
3- Gangotri- Vijaypal Singh Sajwan
4-Badrinath- Rajendra Singh Bhandari
5- Tharali (SC)- Dr. Jeet Ram
6- Karnprayag- Mukesh Singh Negi
7-Kedarnath- Manoj Rawat
8- Rudraprayag- Pradeep Thapliyal
9- Ghanshali (SC)- Dani Lal Shah
10-Devprayag- Minister Prasad Naithani
11- Pratapnagar- Vikram Singh Negi
12- Dhanaulti- Jot Singh Bisht
13-Chakrata (ST)- Pritam Singh
14-Vikasnagar- Nav Prabhat
15- Sahpur- Aryendra Sharma
16- Dharampur- Dinesh Agarwal
17- Raipur- Hira Singh Bisht
18- Rajpur Road (SC)- Raj Kumar
19-Mussoorie- Godavari Thapli
20- Haridwar- Satpal Brahmachari
21-BHEL, Ranipur- Rajveer Singh Chouhan
22- Bhagwanpur (SC)- Mamta Rakesh
23-Pirankaliyar- Mohd. Furqan Ahmed
24-Mangalore- Qazi Mohd. Nizamuddin
25-Yamkeshwar- Shailendra Singh Rawat
26-Pauri (SC)- Naval Kishore
27- Srinagar- Ganesh Godiyal
28- Kotdwar- Surendra Singh Negi
29- Dharchula- Harish Singh Dhami
30-Didihat- Pradeep Singh Pal
31- Pithoragarh- Mayukh Mehar
32-Gangolihat (SC)- Khajan Chandra Guddu
33- Kapkote- Lalit Mohan Singh Farswan
34-Bhageshwar (SC)- Ranjit Das
35-Dwarahat- Madan Singh Bisht
36-Ranikhet- Karan Mahra
37-Someswar (SC)- Rajendra Barakoti
38-Almora- Manoj Tiwari
39-Jageshwar- Govind Singh Kunjwal
40-Lohaghat- Kaushal Singh Officer
41-Champawat- Hamesh Khadakwal
42- Bhimtal- Dan Singh Bhandari
43-Nainital (SC)- Sanjeev Arya
44- Haldwani- Sumit Hridayesh
45- Jaspur- Adesh Singh Chauhan
46- Kashipur- Narendra Chandra Singh
47-Bajpur (SC)- Yashpal Arya
48- Gadarpur- Premanand Mahajan
49- Rudrapur- Meena Sharma
50- Kichha- Tilak Raj Behar
51- Sitarganj- Navtej Pal Singh
52- Nanak Matta (SC)- Gopal Singh Rana
53- Khatima- Bhuvan Chandra Kapri
