Uttarakhand polls: Congress turncoats do properly, daughters of two former CMs avenge defeat of their fathers

By PTI

DEHRADUN: Two Congress turncoats emerged victorious whereas the daughters of two former chief ministers avenged the defeat of their fathers within the Uttarakhand meeting polls.

Former Uttarakhand Congress president Kishore Upadhyay and former pradesh mahila Congress president Sarita Arya received their respective seats of Tehri and Nainital.

Sarita Arya defeated distinguished Dalit chief from Kumaon area Yashpal Arya’s son and sitting Congress MLA Sanjiv Arya from Nainital whereas Upadhyay defeated Dinesh Dhanai of the Congres by 951 votes from Tehri.

Upadhyay had joined the BJP after he was denied a ticket by the Congress.

Though Congress ballot marketing campaign head Harish Rawat himself misplaced from Lakuwa, his daughter Anupama Rawat received the Haridwar rural seat by defeating cabinet minister Yatishwaranand by 4,472 votes.

Former chief minister and BJP chief Bhuvan Chandrda Khanduri’s daughter Ritu Khanduri Bhushan avenged her father’s humiliation in Kotdwar as she defeated Surendra Singh Negi of the Congress by 3,687 votes.

Khanduri had misplaced from Kotdwar in 2012 and Harish Rawat from Haridwar rural in 2017 when the 2 stalwarts had contested from the seats as incumbent chief ministers.

However, Harak Singh Rawat’s daughter-in-Law Anukriti Gusain Rawat misplaced to sitting MLA Daleep Singh Rawat of the BJP in Lansdowne by 9,868 votes.