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DAINIK NATION BUREAU BJP national spokesman Syed Shahnawaz Hussain averred that the national leaders of Congress, including  Rahul Gandhi, steering clear of poll-bound Uttarakhand  has made it clear that the figure of the ruling party in the state would not  reach the   double digit. He said this while  addressing a press conference in Dehradun on Wednesday. He also pointed out the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU   Uttarkashi district, which have mere three Assembly seats, is nonetheless an important one electorally because of the fact that two of three seats up for  grabs here are Gangotri and Yamunotri, two of the four fabled shrines of the state. The other seat is Purola. Gangotri stands in a class by itself because of the tag it ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In a bid to win the ongoing assembly election BJP, which claims that they are ideology based party sideline it, and given ticket to all the 13 dissident congress leaders including Satpal Maharaj was given ticket in place of his wife & Ex MLA Amrita Rawat. Besides to facilitate senior leader the chopped three sitting MLAs including ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU   Two hundred are millionaire and 54 are facing criminal cases out of the total 637 candidates are in fray in the Vidhan Sabha election 2017. In which five of them are facing murder (Indian Penal Code Section-302) charges. In hills where women are credited for playing a major role not only in the statehood movement but also in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU   Despite having lodged a complaint with the election commission over the video footage allegedly posted by Congress featuring the chief minister Harish Rawat as a Bahubali hauling Uttarakhand on his back with the saffron stalwarts watching in consternation, BJP has launched a counter attack, uploading a video featuring the chief minister sitting impassively on a reclining ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU   A week after the chief minister Harish Rawat released his nine-point pledges to hook the electorate with much fanfare , the Union finance minister and senior  BJP leader   Arun Jaitley  has released BJP’s vision documents at the party headquarters in Dehradun  on Saturday. It seems that BJP has taken cue from Samajwadi Party led by Akhilesh ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU   Uttarakhand is set to receive rain/snow  because of western disturbance for two days starting from Saturday. Stat weather department has forecast that rain/snow would occur at a few places in Garhwal region and at isolated places in Kumaon region of Uttarakhand for the next 48 hours. Snowfall is likely to occur at places with height 3500 metres ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU   In a bid to lure the voters and to boost the morale of party candidates, who are under stress with the 17 dissidents BJP leaders who are in election fray against them, BJP has decided to use their master stroke i.e. Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As per the schedule PM is coming to address two public ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU   A total of 634 candidates including independent candidates are fighting for 70 seats for ongoing Uttarakhand assembly election. Now people will vote for these candidates on February 15. 51 candidates have withdrawn nomination from 10 out of 13 districts of Uttarakhand. Among those not contesting the poll now, six candidates withdrew their nomination from 10 different ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU   Taking action against the rebels who are in the election  fray as Independent despite the party high command’s efforts to persuade them to withdraw,   BJP has suspended as many as 20 such rebels including two SHailendra Singh Rawat and Suresh Jain who have been contesting election on congress ticket for six years. Besides, BJP has also ...