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  • Muslims made mistake in selecting proper various: BSP on Uttarakhand loss

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: The BSP on Sunday mentioned that regardless of its finest efforts to defeat the BJP within the Uttarakhand Assembly polls, the occasion gained as a result of Muslims selected the mistaken various.

    The BSP arrived on the conclusion at a gathering of office-bearers and employees of its Uttarakhand unit with occasion president Mayawati right here to evaluate its efficiency within the simply concluded meeting polls.

    “It was discovered in the course of the evaluate (assembly) that like Uttar Pradesh, in Uttarakhand too, numerous effort was put in to defeat the ruling BJP however particularly the individuals of the Muslim group made a mistake in choosing the proper various.

    Due to this, regardless of the robust resentment amongst individuals towards the BJP on points like poverty, inflation, unemployment and its conceited and autocratic angle, the BJP benefitted once more,” the BSP mentioned in a press release.

    “It was also felt at the meeting that if the attitude of these people does not change in future, then it will be very difficult to resolve the problem,” it mentioned.

    The BSP gained solely two seats within the 70-member Uttarakhand Assembly and received a mere 4.82 per cent of the overall votes.

    The BJP gained 47 seats.

    It created historical past by retaining energy within the hill state, the place each different earlier authorities was voted out previously.

    Referring to rival political events, Mayawati mentioned it ought to be saved in thoughts that the BSP’s opponents use cash energy and are adept at doing “dirty politics”.

    She additionally requested occasion employees to not get demoralised by the election outcomes and work to deal with the shortcomings.

  • Pushkar Singh Dhami or one other new face? BJP weighs choices for Uttarakhand CM publish

    By PTI

    DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand meeting ballot end result has offered the BJP with a dilemma of types because it weighs numerous choices after outgoing chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami who was tipped to proceed within the publish misplaced the election even because the celebration stormed again to energy.

    Party sources stated Union ministers Piyush Goyal and Dharmendra Pradhan could also be despatched to the state as central observers to supervise the legislative celebration assembly to elect the brand new chief.

    No date has been mounted for the assembly but.

    The BJP has created historical past within the hill state by retaining energy as each different earlier authorities was voted out up to now.

    It gained 47 seats within the 70-member meeting.

    Party circles are abuzz on whether or not their high leaders will put their belief in Dhami once more, which necessitates {that a} sitting MLA vacate his seat for him to combat the ballot once more, or one of many newly-elected legislators will likely be picked to be the brand new chief minister.

    The BJP additionally has the choice of selecting certainly one of its senior leaders from the state, who’s at present not an MLA, for the job.

    It could also be famous that the BJP had chosen a brand new chief minister in Jai Ram Thakur following its win within the 2017 Himachal Pradesh polls after its chief ministerial alternative and veteran chief Prem Kumar Dhumal misplaced the election.

    Thakur was one of many MLAs.

    The BJP had modified two chief ministers in Uttarakhand within the final 12 months of its authorities’s time period with Dhami taking on in July final 12 months.

    The 46-year-old chief was seen by the celebration as somebody who managed to negate anti-incumbency earlier than it smashed the problem from Congress to retain energy.

  • Assembly elections: BJP marching forward in Uttarakhand, CM Dhami trailing

    By PTI

    DEHRADUN: The ruling BJP secured a snug lead in Uttarakhand on Thursday with its candidates forward in 44 meeting seats whereas the primary opposition Congress was forward in 22 seats, in keeping with ballot tendencies accessible.

    BJP’s Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami was, nevertheless, trailing behind Bhuwan Chandra Kapri of the Congress by 954 votes in Khatima, in keeping with tendencies accessible for all 70 seats within the state.

    BSP and Independent candidates have been forward on two seats every, the Election Commission mentioned.

    Prominent candidates trailing of their respective seats included Congress veteran Harish Rawat, who was behind Mohan Singh Bisht of the BJP by 7,085 votes in Lalkuan and Subodh Uniyal of the BJP who was trailing behind Om Gopal Rawat of the Congress in Narendra Nagar by 1,544 votes.

    Yashpal Arya, who had returned to the Congress fold from the BJP forward of the polls, was additionally trailing behind BJP’s Rajesh Kumar in Bajpur by 3,163 votes.

    Pritam Singh of the Congress was main in Chakrata by 18,05 votes in opposition to Ramsharan Nautiyal of the BJP.

    The ruling BJP is searching for a second consecutive time period in workplace this time, one thing which has by no means occurred within the state’s 21-year historical past.

    Routed within the 2017 meeting polls with a tally of 11 seats in opposition to the BJP’s 57, the Congress is making an attempt to stage a comeback.

    Prominent candidates who contested the polls are Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, his cabinet colleagues Satpal Maharaj, Bansidhar Bhagat, Subodh Uniyal, Arvind Pandey, Dhan Singh Rawat and Rekha Arya, in addition to state BJP president Madan Kaushik.

    Important Congress leaders whose destiny can be determined embody former chief minister Harish Rawat, former minister Yashpal Arya, state Congress president Ganesh Godiyal and Leader of Opposition within the fourth meeting Pritam Singh.