Campaigning for the July 8 by-poll in Sitarganj from where
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna is trying his luck to enter
the Vidhan Sabha ended this evening.
On the last day of campaigning, Bahuguna along with his sister and
Uttar Pradesh PCC president Rita Bahuguna Joshi and Uttarakhand Congress
president Yashpal Arya organised a road show to drum up support in his
favour.
Bahuguna and Arya have been camping in Sitarganj for the past few days to ensure a victory from the seat.
Uttarakhand Chief Election Officer Radha Raturi said the polling for the
by-election would be held on July 8, while the counting of votes will
take place on July 11.
In the by-election, Bahuguna is locked in a straight contest with
BJP's Prakash Pant, who held the posts of cabinet ministers and Speaker
of the assembly during the tenure of previous BJP governments.
Pant had lost the recent assembly election held earlier this year from Pithoragarh.
The Sitarganj seat fell vacant after former BJP MLA Kiran Mandal
quit the seat in favour of Bahuguna "for the sake of development of his
constituency".
Both the main political parties-- Congress and BJP relied only on the state leadership for campaigning.
For BJP, the campaigning was managed by Rajya Sabha MP and party's
national vice president Bhagat Singh Koshiyari, state BJP president
Bishan Singh Chufal and leader of the opposition Ajay Bhatt.
Bhatt said the main poll plank of the BJP is the "treachery" by
Mandal, who resigned from the seat. "The people had voted for BJP and by
resigning from the seat in favour of Congress for money, Mandal has
done treachery," he said.
Nearly 1500 personnel including four companies of central
paramilitary forces and three platoons of PAC have been deployed in the
constituency for security purpose. Besides, a polling staff comprising
nearly 600 people have also been put on duty on 116 polling booths,
Raturi said.
Sitarganj constituency has an electorate of 91247, including 42447 women voters.
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