Uttarakhand Election: CM Pushkar Singh Dhami To Contest From Khatima, Says Abki Baar 60 Paar

Uttarakhand Chief Minister said, "We all are together and ready to contest polls. This time, we have given a slogan 'Abki Baar 60 Paar'."

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami. (Source: ANI)

New Delhi: Ahead of the Uttarakhand assembly election 2022, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said on Saturday that he will run for the Khatima constituency in the upcoming polls.

He informed ANI that the candidate list would be released soon. 

Post-BJP core committee meeting, Uttarakhand Chief Minister said, "We all are together and ready to contest polls. This time, we have given a slogan 'Abki Baar 60 Paar'."

I will contest the election from the Khatima constituency. We all are together and ready to contest polls. This time, we have given a slogan 'Abki Baar 60 Paar'. The candidates' list will be announced soon: Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami after the BJP Core Committee meeting pic.twitter.com/mXdUixAYKL

— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) January 15, 2022

Congress Seeks FIR Against Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami Over MCC Violations

Earlier on Thursday, the Congress had urged the Election Commission (EC) to initiate criminal proceedings against Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, the state government's chief secretary, and other officials, alleging that they violated the Model Code of Conduct by backdating appointments, transfers, and postings and tampering with official records (MCC). 

The Congress claimed, "severe breaches" of the MCC and the Representation of the People Act, 1951 by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) administration in Uttarakhand in a memorandum submitted to the EC.

"As the BJP government of Uttarakhand is conscious of the fact that it is being routed in the upcoming elections by the people of Uttarakhand, the Dhami government has indulged in desperate tampering of government records by back-dated appointments, transfers and postings and tampering with official records," the opposition party was quoted by PTI in its earlier report.

Uttarakhand Election 2022

The tenure of the 70-seat Uttarakhand legislative assembly will expire on March 23, 2022. The final voter list for Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly Election 2022 has already been released by the Election Commission of India (ECI).

Election to 70 seats in Uttarakhand will be held on February 14, 2022, the Election Commission had announced earlier. The counting of votes will be done on March 10, 2022.

Uttarakhand Election 2017

The Bharatiya Janata Party won 57 out of 70 assembly seats in the 2017 state elections. Harish Rawat, the former Chief Minister and a top Congress politician had lost one of the two seats he ran for.  

This hill state has had three different chief ministers since 2017. On March 18, 2017, the BJP named Trivendra Singh Rawat as the state's Chief Minister following the party's victory in 2017. He resigned from the position three years later, on March 9, 2021. 

Congress was able to retain only 11 seats while independent candidates had bagged two seats in the 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election.