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uttarakHand eLectionS 2022

Mountain miracle as BJP

retains power

to BJP’s Suresh Singh Chauhan on
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the Gangotri seat. Kothiyal got 6,161
Dehradun votes with a vote share of 10.33 per
cent while Chauhan won with a mas-
he BJP has come back to pow- sive vote share of 49.66 per cent and
er for the second consecutive
tterm in Uttarakhand with a got 29,619 votes.
In the Tehri seat, Congress’
two-third majority in the 70-member Dhan Singh Negi, who won the seat
Assembly. The party won 47 seats and as BJP candidate in 2017, was defeat-
got a vote share of 44.33 per cent, a ed by Kishore Upadhyay, who joined
drop of nearly two per cent from the the BJP ahead of the elections by
previous 2017 Assembly elections. The 13,417 votes. Negi secured 13.64 per
BJP had secured a 46.51 per cent vote cent votes while Upadhyay got 42.31
share in the 2017 Assembly election. votes.
However, the BJP suffered a
Anukriti Gusain, the daughter-
loss of 10 seats in comparison to the in-law of former Uttarakhand Minis-
previous polls in 2017 when the party ter Harak Singh Rawat, was defeat-
had come with an even bigger majori- ed by BJP’s Daleep Singh Rawat by
ty with 57 seats. The incumbent Chief a margin of 9,868 votes. Gusain got
Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, how- 14,636 votes with a vote share of
ever, suffered a loss to Congress can- uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami hands over his resignation letter from the 35.35 per cent while Rawat secured
didate Bhuwan Chandra Kapri by a post of Chief Minister to Governor Lieutenant General (Retd.) Gurmit Singh at Raj Bhavan, in 24,504 votes with a vote share of
margin of 6,579 votes in the Khatima Dehradun on Friday. (ANI Photo) 59.18 per cent.
constituency. However, some BJP What came as another jolt to
MLAs including Kailash Gahtori and the BJP in the polls was the defeat
Suresh Gadiya have expressed their of cabinet minister Yatishwaranand
willingness to give up their respective who was defeated by Anupama
seats for Dhami to contest as he suf- Rawat, Harish Rawat’s daughter by a
fered defeat in Khatima. margin of 4,472 votes. Rawat secured
The Congress party, which was
hoping to return to power in this 50,028 votes with a 46.59 per cent
vote share while Yatishwaranand got
election managed to win 19 seats. 45,556 votes with a 42.42 per cent
The party’s top leader and former vote share.
chief minister Harish Rawat lost his Congress’ Sanjeev Arya, son
seat from the Lalkuwa seat to BJP’s of former cabinet minister Yashpal
Mohan Singh Bisht by 17,527 votes. Arya who joined Congress ahead
Anupama Rawat, daughter of
Harish Rawat defeated sitting min- of the elections, lost to BJP’s Sari-
ta Arya who got 31,770 votes with a
ister Yatishwaranand from the Hard- 52.19 per cent vote share. Sanjeev got
war Rural seat by a margin of 4,472.
23,889 votes with a 39.24 vote share.
Uttarakhand chief minister
With many tall leaders from the Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday
incumbent government and the along with the state cabinet submit-

opposition parties on the line Voters standing in the queue to cast their votes, at a polling booth during the uttarakhand ted his resignation to the governor
Lieutenant General Gurmit Singh at
in the assembly polls in uttara- Assembly Election, at Shri Guru Ram Rai Public School in Dehradun on Monday. (ANI Photo) Raj Bhavan.
As per the practice, he will con-
khand, some big names crum- Another senior leader that suf- ond consecutive defeat of Rawat in tinue as the caretaker chief minister
bled including sitting chief fered defeat was Congress leader and two Assembly polls. He had lost in till the new government is sworn in.
minister Pushkar Singh dhami former chief minister Harish Rawat Haridwar (Rural) in the 2017 elec- In a tweet in Hindi today, Dhami
and former chief minister Har- who lost to BJP’s Mohan Singh Bisht tions. wrote, “As we have received a tre-
mendous amount of support in Ut-
by 17,527 votes.
Col Ajay Kothiyal (retd), chief
ish rawat as the leaders lost Rawat had initially decided ministerial candidate of the Aam tarakhand my cabinet and I submit-
their respective seats. to contest from Ramnagar seat in Aadmi Party which is contesting for ted resignation to Governor Gurmit
Nainital district. This is the sec- the first time in the state, also lost Singh today.”

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