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DAINIK NATION BUREAU The defeat of outgoing Chief Minister Harish Rawat from two assembly constituencies (Haridwar rural and Kichha)  in the recently concluded Vidhan Sabha elections has shown that the people of state have a knack of dishing out electoral reverses to the sitting Chief Ministers. Interestingly the defeat of the Chief Ministers also ensured that their respective parties failed ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU On the invitation of Yoga guru Swami Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna, the union Finance minister had come to Haridwar to inaugurate Niramayam facility. It was his first visit to Yog Gram said the minister. After inauguration, at 1.50 pm on Sunday the union minister flew from Yog Gram to visit Patanjali food park in Padartha village in ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party has won 56 Assembly seats out of 69 seats performing very well in the state but a question mark has also been raised over the performance of the BJP MPs because all five Lok Sabha seats have been represented by the BJP since 2014. Before assembly election BJP national president Amit Shah had categorically asked the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed to the citizens to take the pledge for a New India and express commitment. The NaMo said, ” On the NM Mobile App http://nm4.in/dnldapp , take the pledge and express your commitment towards building a new India. A new India is emerging, which is being powered by the strength & ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Election commission has decided to conduct repolling of booth no 128 of Lohaghat Assembly seat, which result could not declare because of malfunctioning of EVM, on march 15. As the booth’s EVM could not open at the time of counting so they decided to conduct repolling on that booth. After repolling EC would do counting of the ...

DAINIK NATION  BUREAU Election Commission has declared the results of 69 out of 70 seats on Saturday evening, excluding Lohaghat, where the EVM malfunctioned, resulting in the withholding of the counting.   As per the official declaration, BJP has won 56 seats while the Congress,  11 and two seats has  gone to the  independents. In four districts – Dehradun, Haridwar, Udham ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Negating the view  of most of the political commentators who opined that the  13 Congress turncoats who switched to BJP  few months before the election would prove liabilities for the party, supposedly staring at imminent defeats,  most of the  rebels have registered victories in their respective constituencies by impressive margins. However, two of them tasted defeat. The ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Accepting defeat after the result was declared,  Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat submitted his resignation to the Governor Dr KK Paul at Raj Bhawan on Saturday. Before tendering his resignation, Rawat said that he had accepted the defeat in all humility. “Entrusted with the responsibility in the wake of the disaster 2013, I tried my best to provide ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Counting of votes in all the 70 seats of Uttarakhand Assembly election would be held at 15 places across the state on Saturday, said Uttarakhand chief electoral officer Radha Raturi on Friday. She said that all preparations related to counting of votes have been completed. “In all, 15 counting venues have been fixed across 13 districts of the state. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Most of the exit polls aired on several television channels on Thursdayevening, projecting a saffron sweep in Uttarakhand, have enthused the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and workers so much so that they in started distributing sweets among themselves and pasting  thanks-giving posters celebrating the  ‘impending’ victory on the walls of the residential buildings hours before the counting ...