The fate of 632 candidates for Uttarakhand assembly elections will be sealed today as the state votes in a single phase. Uttarakhand, which has seen 11 chief ministers in the last two decades, has voted out the incumbent government in every assembly election since the state’s formation in 2000. The Bharatiya Janata Party has the twin task of beating the anti-incumbency and the electoral trend. Neither the BJP nor the Congress has declared its chief ministerial candidate in the elections but Pushkar Singh Dhami and Harish Rawat have remained the face of the poll campaign.
Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami voted at a polling booth in the Khatima constituency, from where he is contesting the assembly election. Dhami mother and wife also cast their votes.
Congress leader and former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat offered prayers at his Lalkuan residence. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra urges voters to use ‘democracy’s strongest weapon.
