Congress Releases First List of 53 Candidates for Uttarakhand Polls

Elections will be held for 70 seats in the Uttarakhand Assembly in a single phase on 14 February.

The Congress on Saturday, 22 January, released its first list of 53 candidates for the Uttarakhand Assembly elections.

While Uttarakhand Congress President Ganesh Godiyal will contest from the Srinagar seat, Leader of Opposition in the outgoing Assembly Pritam Singh has been fielded from the Chakrata (ST) constituency.

Meanwhile, Yashpal Arya and his son Sanjeev Arya, who quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and switched over to the Congress in October 2021, will contest from Bajpur and Nainital constituencies respectively.

Former Chief Minister Harish Rawat and Harak Singh Rawat, who joined the party only on Friday, have not been mentioned in the first list.