In an interesting turn of events, Umesh Kumar, an independent MLA from Khanpur Village of district Haridwar reached the Uttarakhand assembly with sugarcane on his tractor. The visuals showed Umesh Kumar trying to enter the assembly with sugarcane while the police officials somehow managed t
In view of the surge of dengue cases in the state, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has instructed the officers to concrete on work for effective control of the disease, a statement from CMO said on Wednesday.
According to the Chief Minister's Office (CMO), CM Dhami paid his respects and offered floral tributes to the late President of India at the Chief Minister's residence in Dehradun.
The voting for the bye-elections to the other six assembly constituencies of several states, including Uttarakhand, Kerala, Tripura, West Bengal, and Jharkhand, started on Tuesday at 7 am.
Voting for bypoll at Uttarakhand's Bageshwar Assembly seat is underway. The result will be announced by the Election Commission on Friday, September 8.
Notably, this is the first election between the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Opposition bloc's newly formed Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA).
As six states are gearing up for bypolls on September 5, it will be the first show of strength of the Opposition bloc, Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ahead of state assembly elections later
BJP state president Mahendra Bhatt on Sunday wrote to the Election Commission, accusing the central observer for the upcoming Bageshwar Assembly bypoll, Rajesh Kumar, of bias and demanding that he be replaced at the earliest.
After addressing an election rally for the by-polls for the Bageshwar assembly seat, Dhami said, "We have always received support from all the voters of Bageshwar and this time also I can see that they have an inclination towards us. So the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Parvati Das will w