Uttarakhand Polls: Harish Rawat to Contest from Lalkuan Instead of Ramnagar

GG News Bureau

Dehradun, 27th Jan. Former Uttarakhand chief minister and Congress leader Harish Rawat will now contest the Uttarakhand assembly elections from Lalkuan seat instead of Ramnagar seat, which was announced earlier.

The party changed Harish Rawat’s seat in the third list of 10 candidates announced late on Wednesday. In this list, Congress changed the seats of five of its previously nominated candidates. It also fielded Rawat’s daughter Anupama Rawat from the Haridwar rural assembly seat.

Rawat replaced Sandhya Dalakoti for the Lalkuan seat, while Mahender Pal Singh will now contest in Rawat’s place from Ramnagar assembly constituency.

Mahender Pal Singh was earlier fielded by the party to contest the Kaladhungi assembly seat, from where the party has now fielded Mahesh Sharma.

The Congress also nominated Gaurav Chaudhary in place of Mohit Uniyal for the Doiwala assembly seat and Ravi Bahadur replaced Barkha Rani for the Jwalapur-SC seat.

The Congress has fielded Yashpal Rana from Roorkee.