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  • Uttarakhand polls: BJP blames factionalism, inner sabotage for CM Pushkar Singh Dhami’s defeat

    Express News Service

    DEHRADUN: Factionalism within the occasion and inner sabotage are to be blamed for the defeat of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami from Khatima seat within the current Assembly elections, the BJP has concluded.

    The occasion had determined to “introspect and analyse” the explanations behind its defeat on 23 seats within the state, together with Khatima. “The committee visited the constituency from where the CM contested and lost by over 6,900 votes. Its members concluded that the CM lost due to internal sabotage. Further inquiry will be conducted to find out the people responsible,” mentioned a celebration insider. 

    The occasion has additionally determined to research the explanations for decreased vote share in comparison with 2017. BJP nationwide normal secretary BL Santosh is prone to go to Uttarakhand quickly to carry conferences on the matter.

    The constituencies which is able to get particular consideration embody Khatima and Piran Kaliyar, the place the occasion candidate misplaced deposit, and different seats the place the margin of defeat was under 3,000. BJP sources mentioned the train may result in hunting down of some members who’re suspected to have helped the rivals. 

    In the 2017 elections, the BJP had garnered 46.51 per cent votes with 57 seats whereas this time, it bagged 44.34 per cent votes and 47 seats. Despite Dhami’s loss, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s central management determined to retain him as CM after the occasion secured 48 seats within the 70-member Assembly, beating the pattern of no occasion returning to energy for a second straight time period. Six MLAs of the occasion have proven willingness to vacate their seats for Dhami to contest.

    When Dhami was chosen chief minister in July final 12 months, many seniors within the occasion together with Satpal Maharaj, Harak Singh Rawat, Yashpal Arya and Bishan Singh Chuphal have been reportedly sad.

    Party belief in CM’s management

    Despite Pushkar Singh Dhami’s loss, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s central management determined to retain him as Uttarakhand CM after the occasion secured 48 seats within the 70-member Assembly, beating the pattern of no occasion returning to energy for a second straight time period. 

  • Uttarakhand: Khanpur MLA Umesh Kumar’s election challenged earlier than HC

    By PTI

    NAINITAL: The election of Umesh Kumar, who was elected as an impartial MLA from Khanpur, was challenged on Friday earlier than the Uttarakhand High Court.

    Despite a vacation on Friday, a Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Sanjay Kumar Mishra and Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari heard the petition via videoconferencing.

    During the listening to, the petitioner couldn’t give ample info within the court docket, after which the petitioner sought time to current the report within the court docket.

    The court docket has now fastened March 23 for the following listening to.

    According to the petition, Laksar resident Virendra Kumar and Janata Cabinet Party president Bhavna Pandey accused the Khanpur MLA of hiding many info within the affidavit filed earlier than the election authorities.

    It was claimed within the petition that 29 circumstances are pending towards him in numerous courts whereas he furnished a listing of solely 16 circumstances within the affidavit earlier than the returning officer, hiding the primary offence allegedly dedicated by him.

    Thus the petitioner approached the High Court, claiming that he should not be allowed to take oath as an MLA and the Election Commission ought to be directed to take motion towards him underneath the Representation of the People Act.

    The High Court requested for the data associated to the allegations, which the petitioner couldn’t present.

    The court docket questioned the maintainability of the petition.

    The petitioners sought time to supply these data.

  • 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.

  • Uttarakhand polls: Congress turncoats do properly, daughters of two former CMs avenge defeat of their fathers

    By PTI

    DEHRADUN: Two Congress turncoats emerged victorious whereas the daughters of two former chief ministers avenged the defeat of their fathers within the Uttarakhand meeting polls.

    Former Uttarakhand Congress president Kishore Upadhyay and former pradesh mahila Congress president Sarita Arya received their respective seats of Tehri and Nainital.

    Sarita Arya defeated distinguished Dalit chief from Kumaon area Yashpal Arya’s son and sitting Congress MLA Sanjiv Arya from Nainital whereas Upadhyay defeated Dinesh Dhanai of the Congres by 951 votes from Tehri.

    Upadhyay had joined the BJP after he was denied a ticket by the Congress.

    Though Congress ballot marketing campaign head Harish Rawat himself misplaced from Lakuwa, his daughter Anupama Rawat received the Haridwar rural seat by defeating cabinet minister Yatishwaranand by 4,472 votes.

    Former chief minister and BJP chief Bhuvan Chandrda Khanduri’s daughter Ritu Khanduri Bhushan avenged her father’s humiliation in Kotdwar as she defeated Surendra Singh Negi of the Congress by 3,687 votes.

    Khanduri had misplaced from Kotdwar in 2012 and Harish Rawat from Haridwar rural in 2017 when the 2 stalwarts had contested from the seats as incumbent chief ministers.

    However, Harak Singh Rawat’s daughter-in-Law Anukriti Gusain Rawat misplaced to sitting MLA Daleep Singh Rawat of the BJP in Lansdowne by 9,868 votes.

  • 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.

  • Congress to kind authorities in Uttarakhand with at the very least 40 seats: PCC

    The Congress mentioned it’ll kind the federal government in Uttarakhand claiming it’ll win at the very least 40 seats within the 70-member state meeting.

  • ‘Congress fails to see the fact’: Dhami says BJP will kind authorities at Uttarakhand

    By Express News Service

    DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has expressed his confidence for the Bhartiya Janta Party to attain majority in 70-member state legislative meeting to kind the federal government. 

    “We are going to form government in Uttarakhnd as people have expressed their confidence in the BJP. The Congress is blinded and fails to see the reality but they are going to shrink to 10 or less seats,” mentioned Chief Minister Dhami.

    This comes after a number of statements of former CM Harish Rawat about Congress successful 45 plus seats.

    “We are confident of winning 45-48 seats and forming the government. The people of Uttarakhand have seen through the BJP’s lies and deciet. We are winning and are committed to work towards realizing the dreams of the people of the state, ” mentioned Rawat had mentioned. 

    Rawat mentioned that he’ll request Sonia Gandhi to take a name on the chief ministerial candidate. 

    He additionally added that the Indian National Congress goes to kind the federal government in 4 out of 5 election certain state. 

    This got here after his earlier assertion by which he said that both he could be the CM of Uttarakhand or sit at house.

    Insiders say {that a} tussle inside the Indian National Congress has began relating to the CM face.

    Pritam Singh, former state president of the get together responding to the queries associated to the place mentioned that the CM face will likely be determined by the get together excessive command.

    Meanwhile, Rawat had additionally added that the get together has began laying out plans to run the goverment and few choices will likely be taken instantly within the first cabinet.

    Uttarakhand went for polls on February 14 for 70 state meeting constituencies in its fifth meeting elections.

    Counting will happen on March 10 to establish the outcomes of the elections. 

  • Amid buzz over management change in Uttarakhand, BJP to carry legislature social gathering assembly tomorrow

    Amid the excitement of management change, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat Friday addressed a press convention in Dehradun. Without mentioning something a few formal resignation, the chief minister knowledgeable of assorted measures taken by the federal government throughout his tenure.
    A BJP legislature social gathering assembly is scheduled to be held at 3 pm tomorrow on the social gathering headquarters. The assembly will likely be held underneath the chairmanship of state president Madan Kaushik, state’s media in-charge Manveer Singh Chauhan mentioned.
    Earlier within the day, CM Rawat met BJP president J P Nadda in Delhi for the second time in every week, growing hypothesis that the social gathering might once more go in for a change within the management within the state because the prospect of the Election Commission (EC) holding an meeting bypoll there appears unsure.
    Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat performs Yoga on International Day of Yoga, in Harrawala. (PTI Photo)(PTI06_21_2021_000169B)
    Rawat additionally informed reporters that the social gathering would take a name about its political technique within the state, and famous that holding or not holding the bypoll was EC’s prerogative.

    Rawat must be elected as an MLA within the subsequent two months to proceed within the publish, which he bought after the BJP management eliminated Trivendra Singh Rawat from the helm.
    However, observers notice that with the time period of the Uttarakhand Assembly, in any case, coming to an finish in lower than a 12 months, the EC might not order a bypoll for the vacant seats in Uttarakhand. The ballot physique had not too long ago deferred holding some Lok Sabha and meeting bypolls as a result of Covid-19 pandemic and mentioned that it could not be applicable to carry the electoral train until the pandemic scenario improves considerably.

    Rawat, who changed Trivendra Rawat because the Chief Minister, was elected to the Lok Sabha from Garhwal in 2019. He has not but resigned from the Lok Sabha and stays the Garhwal MP, in keeping with the Lok Sabha web site.
    At current, there are two vacant meeting seats in Uttarakhand — Gangotri and Haldwani. Gangotri fell vacant after the demise of BJP MLA Gopal Singh Rawat and Haldwani after the demise of Leader of Opposition Indira Hridayesh.
    Tirath Singh Rawat with Trivendra Singh Rawat in Dehradun. (PTI)
    Earlier, information company PTI reported that the central management had been in dialogue with authorized and constitutional consultants over the matter. “One suggestion that came up is that the party can pick someone else for the top post as there are restrictions on the same person returning to the post,” a BJP chief was quoted as saying by PTI. “Both the Election Commission and the government are careful after the criticism during recent Assembly elections. So holding an election is possible only after the situation becomes normal,” the chief added.
    The BJP has not made any official feedback concerning the developments.
    On Tuesday, the Uttarakhand BJP had determined to ship out all state ministers, MLAs, and office-bearers of social gathering organisations to all 70 constituencies within the state subsequent month to handle grievances of the individuals and social gathering staff.
    The social gathering additionally determined to launch a mass contact programme from October, and yatras throughout the state in December.
    The BJP had gained 57 seats within the 2017 elections and fashioned the federal government in Uttarakhand.
    With PTI inputs

  • Eye on key polls: BJP meet evaluations social gathering actions in 5 states

    Under hearth for the absence of its leaders on the bottom throughout the second wave of the pandemic, the BJP on Saturday took inventory of its actions and determined to re-energise its cadres forward of the 5 Assembly elections, arising early subsequent yr, in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Punjab and Goa.
    After the day-long assembly, BJP president J P Nadda and General Secretary (Organisation) B L Santhosh met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sources stated the assembly was to temporary the Prime Minister in regards to the “stock taking”.
    The evaluation — during which social gathering basic secretaries and leaders accountable for the poll-bound states mentioned the social gathering’s actions beneath the ‘Seva hi Sangathan’ programme — got here within the wake of PM Modi asking the social gathering management to induce the employees to drag up their socks to be seen on the bottom and counter the criticism in opposition to the federal government, sources stated.
    The BJP management additionally held conferences with the heads of varied morchas of the social gathering to evaluate the efficiency of their respective wings.
    Meanwhile, there may be hypothesis that the BJP could lastly reconstitute its apex decision-making physique — the parliamentary board. Currently with eight members, it has 4 vacancies, left by M Venkaiah Naidu when he grew to become the Vice President, and by late social gathering leaders Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and Ananth Kumar.
    At the assembly, the social gathering leaders additionally assessed the BJP’s efficiency within the recently-held elections in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry. BJP’s failure in profitable majority in Bengal was attributed to the “consolidation of Muslim votes in favour of the TMC” and to the “transfer of Congress-Left votes to TMC”, sources stated.

    BJP sources stated the leaders will focus on the social gathering’s methods for the times forward and for preparations for the important thing elections subsequent yr.
    “In the meetings, the general secretaries and those in charge of the five states explained the activities of the party during the pandemic…the activities were reviewed. Each of them gave a report on the states they are in charge of,” stated a celebration chief. “The shortcomings and the failures also came up for discussion,” added a celebration chief.

    “Although there were some glitches in the first few days, the party has picked up its activities at the ground soon. While the party had planned to reach out to one lakh villages, its workers could cover 1.5 lakh villages,” stated a pacesetter who attended the assembly.
    With the Covid curve falling, the following focus of the social gathering can be the vaccination programme, sources stated.