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DAINIK NATION BUREAU The low voter turn out in many constituencies located in mountainous areas of the state  indicate that despite high pitched voter awareness drive by authorities, the effect of migration on polls is quite apparent. A look on the voting pattern shows that the districts facing the maximum brunt of migration exhibit low voter turnout. In mountainous Pauri ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Strange but true, Vikasnagar assembly constituency, which is playing decisive factor since first assembly election-2002 but people are yet to pay attention on it. Although there is strong belief that the Gangotri constituency’s outcome decides the  party forming the government. Vikasnagar is interesting, for it has been witnessing a straight contest between two contenders, Navprabhat of Congress  ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Taking cognizance on the notice, in which Haridwar administration slapped a notice on the Haridwar district BJP president, citing the party did not seek permission for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s February 10 rally in the city, a Congress delegation led by the state PCC president Kishore Upadhyay met the chief electoral officer (CEO) Radha Raturi on ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Strange but true that despite strong campaigning by the political parties and election commission polling percentage have gone down with the last assembly election. During assembly election-2012 voters were around 70 lakh and polling percentage was 67.22 percent. As per the figures rolled out by the   election commission, there is a very marginal increase as compared to ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU State Meteorological department has forecast light rain/snow at a few places in Uttarakhand from February 19 for a couple of days. Things were dry across the state on Thursday. While the minimum temperatures remained normal in the plains and markedly above normal in the hills of the state. The lowest minimum temperature 4.9°C was recorded at Munsiyari on Thursday.   The meteorological ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A day after the polling, the candidates of various political parties, engaged in tough electioneering for nearly a month are now feeling relaxed. Some of them spent time with their family while some were busy in assessing the voters turnout with their party workers. The BJP candidate from Vikasnagar, Munna Singh Chauhan, locked in a fierce fight with ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Congress is confident of winning about 46 seats out of 70 assembly constituencies in the state. The state PCC president Kishore Upadhyay in the presence of chief minister Harish Rawat claimed while addressing the media here in Dehradun on Thursday. CM Rawat opined that the volume of money-power seen being used in the Assembly election 2017 was ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Sounding  happy over the large turnout of voters for  Wednesday’s poling in Uttarakhand, the state Bharatiya Janata Party president Ajay Bhatt said  the polling percentage surpassing the figure of the 2012  election  was a  pointer to the people’s  craving for a  change. He expressed his gratitude towards the people of the state for the heavy turnout and ...

Till 5 pm 68 percent people have cast their vote on Polling day i.e. february 15. Talking to media person chief electoral officer Radha Raturi said that till 5 pm 68 percent people have franchised their democratic right. This figure will rise because people were in queue as well.    

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A total of 10854 polling booths and 8126 polling centres made in  70 assembly constituencies in the State for polling on February 15. As per the report of EC,  that 1283 polling centres have been demarcated as vulnerable while 1564 as critical. Based on polling booth sensitivities, videography of 221 polling centres will be done while photography would ...