Lok Sabha Election / Congress fields candidates on all seats of Uttarakhand, ticket to Harish Rawat's son from Haridwar

Lok Sabha Election: Only some time is left for the Lok Sabha elections. All the parties are busy in announcing the names of their candidates along with the election campaign. Meanwhile, after a long struggle, Congress has announced its candidates on all the five seats of Uttarakhand. Voting will take place in the first phase in Uttarakhand on April 19. Congress on Saturday night announced its candidates for the remaining two seats of Uttarakhand, Haridwar and Nainital-Udham Singh Nagar.

Bet on Prakash Joshi from Nainital seat

The party has fielded Harish Rawat's son Virendra Rawat from the Haridwar seat and has placed a bet on Prakash Joshi from the Nainital seat. The names of Congress candidates have been revealed in all five seats of Uttarakhand - Tehri, Garhwal, Almora, Nainital and Haridwar. Are. Jot Singh Gunsola from Tehri, Ganesh Godiyal from Garhwal, Pradeep Tamta from Almora, Prakash Joshi from Nainital and Virendra Rawat from Haridwar have been made candidates.

Virendra Rawat will contest elections from Haridwar

It would not be wrong to say that the party high command had to bow down to the stubbornness of senior state Congress leader and former Chief Minister Harish Rawat. The party has given ticket to his son Virendra Rawat for Haridwar seat. Former CM Harish Rawat had started campaigning on Haridwar Lok Sabha seat even before the ticket of Virendra Rawat was decided. He held a road show in Haridwar on Saturday, in which his son Virendra Rawat was also involved. Virendra Rawat is performing the responsibility of State Vice President in the State Congress Committee.

Trivendra Rawat vs Virendra Rawat

Virendra Rawat has contested from Khanpur seat in the 2022 assembly elections, but at that time Harish Rawat's daughter Anupama Rawat had contested the assembly elections from Haridwar Rural and she was elected MLA. This time the path has been cleared for Virendra Rawat for Lok Sabha. In Haridwar, Virendra Rawat will contest against former BJP CM Trivendra Rawat. On the other hand, Congress's Prakash Joshi will contest against BJP's Ajay Bhatt on Nainital seat. Prakash Joshi is the former secretary of AICC.