Champawat bypoll result: Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami wins by over 55,000 votes
India | June 03, 2022 14:16 ISTChampawat bypoll result: Pushkar Singh Dhami defeated his nearest rival from Congress Nirmala Gahtori.
Champawat bypoll result: Pushkar Singh Dhami defeated his nearest rival from Congress Nirmala Gahtori.
The AAP had aimed big in Uttarakhand this time and fielded candidates from all the 70 assembly seats and promised a slew of freebies to woo voters.
Bypoll to the Champawat seat which was vacated for Dhami by Kailash Chandra Gehtori is scheduled to be held on May 31. The results will be announced on June 2.
BJP MLA Kailash Chandra Gahtori said he quit his Champawat assembly seat to enable Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to contest from there. He said that he did it to help the “young” leader to work full-term to meet the expectations of central leadership.
On Jan 5, Dhami had announced that the honorarium of sanitation workers will be raised from the existing Rs 350 per day to Rs 500 per day. Dhami also assured solving other problems of the sanitation workers.
Uttarakhand government has announced portfolios to the newly sworn-in cabinet ministers. The announcements have been made a week after Pushkar Singh Dhami took oath as Uttarakhand Chief Minister, in the presence of PM Modi, other senior ministers and leaders.
Earlier today, Dhami welcomed President Ramnath Kovind at the Dehradun Raj Bhawan, alongside Uttarakhand Governor Gurmit Singh.
Dhami had announced on the last day of campaigning for the February 14 state assembly polls that if re-elected to power, the BJP government will form a high-powered committee consisting of legal experts, senior citizens and intellectuals to draft Uniform Civil Code.
The Brahma Kamal flower, that only blooms after sunset, has purple flower heads enclosed in layers of boat-shaped and greenish-yellow petals. This flower grows only once a year, from August to mid-September.
Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday took oath as the Uttarakhand chief minister during a ceremony held at Parade Ground in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
This is 46-year-old Dhami's second consecutive stint as the chief minister. Speculation over the CM's post in Uttarakhand had ended on Monday, when the BJP declared that the former Khatima MLA will lead the state government.
Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday took oath as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. This is his second term as the CM of the hilly state.
Pushkar Singh Dhami will take oath as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand at a grand ceremony at the Parade Ground in Dehradun on Wednesday afternoon.
Pushkar Singh Dhami will continue as the Uttarakhand Chief Minister, the BJP said on Monday, ending the 11-day suspense over it.
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