By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: Former Uttarakhand leader minister and Congress chief Harish Rawat will now contest the February 14 meeting elections from Lalkuan seat as a substitute of Ramnagar, which used to be introduced previous.
The Congress modified Rawat’s seat within the 3rd record of 10 applicants introduced overdue on Wednesday.
On this record, the birthday celebration modified the seats of 5 of its in the past nominated applicants.
It additionally nominated Rawat’s daughter Anupama Rawat from the Haridwar rural meeting seat.
He had unsuccessfully contested from the Kichcha and Haridwar rural meeting seats within the remaining meeting polls in 2017.
Rawat replaces Sandhya Dalakoti for the Lalkuan seat, whilst Mahender Buddy Singh will now contest in Rawat’s position from Ramnagar meeting constituency.
Singh used to be previous nominated by way of the birthday celebration to contest the Kaladhungi meeting seat, from the place the birthday celebration has now fielded Mahesh Sharma.
The Congress additionally nominated Gaurav Chaudhary instead of Mohit Uniyal for the Doiwala meeting seat and Ravi Bahadur changed Barkha Rani for the Jwalapur-SC seat.
The birthday celebration has nominated Yashpal Rana from Roorkee.
Previous, Uttarakhand Congress operating president Ranjit Rawat has expressed displeasure of the Rawat from Nainital’s Ramnagar, a seat from the place he used to be hopeful of having the birthday celebration price tag.
In a purported video that surfaced on social media, Ranjit Rawat is noticed wondering the birthday celebration’s transfer whilst not easy that Harish Rawat’s candidature be withdrawn.
“Will you let anyone else (Harish Rawat) reap the harvest of a barren land which you made fertile,” he’s noticed asking birthday celebration staff within the video.
“Any individual who needs to be made the birthday celebration’s face for the polls, claiming other folks would vote in his identify, would have had no drawback contesting from every other seat,” he stated.
Terming the birthday celebration’s resolution ‘fallacious’, he asks the birthday celebration prime command to withdraw it.
“If it does now not, then you make a decision what to do with anyone who regardless of having been leader minister does now not have a seat,” Rawat stated relating to Congress marketing campaign head Harish Rawat, who misplaced each the seats he contested within the 2017 Meeting polls.
“I will be able to pass with no matter you make a decision. No selections will also be taken unilaterally in social and political existence,” Ranjit Rawat is heard announcing within the video.
Even though Ranjit Rawat had misplaced the Ramnagar seat to the BJP candidate within the 2017 Meeting polls, he had labored exhausting within the constituency and used to be anticipating birthday celebration price tag from there this time.
On the other hand, the Congress declared Harish Rawat as its candidate from the seat in its 2nd record on Monday, disappointing Ranjit Rawat.
