Politics

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The helicopter carrying chief minister Harish Rawat was not allowed to take off from the GTC helipad in Dehradun on Sunday as per the planned schedule. The chief minister was slated to take off in the helicopter from Dehradun to campaign for party candidates in Almora, Champawat, Chamoli and other constituencies early on Sunday morning. However, despite ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Newly appointed BJP national secretary Teerath Singh Rawat dubbed the Congress party’s manifesto  as a figment  of dreams, smacking of make-believe, placed far from the  reality. “Instead of unveiling such a meaningless manifesto, the chief minister Harish Rawat should have   come out with his report card. The people owe an explanation as the party ruled the state ...

  Udhamsinghnagar MP and Former Chief Minister Bhagat Singh Koshyari alias Bhagatda is wielding immense influence on the politics of the poll-bound state.  A former Union minister and Rajya Sabha member, Satpal Maharaj’s name is doing the rounds in the political circles as a probable chief minister with the party’s top brass having chosen to keep options open.  In an Interview with dainik nation bureau  ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU   A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party released its vision document, the Congress released its manifesto in the presence of Congress state in charge Ambika Soni, party’s assistant election in charge Kumari Selja and Pradesh Congress Committee president Kishore Upadhyay here in Dehradun on Sunday. Chief Minister Harish Rawat has promised that he would stop migration ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Roorkee, which is known for Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), has been grabbing media attention because of two dissidents i.e. sitting MLA Pradeep Batra and Ex MLA Suresh Jain in ongoing assembly election. Coincidentally both have been contesting election against each other since 2012 but this time both changed their party as well. This would be lone ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Taking cognizance on the dissident congress leaders, who have been contesting election against the congress candidate despite congress high command intervention, state congress has suspended 26 congress workers including Aryendra Sharma and Eunuch Rajni Rawat for six years on Thursday.   As per the PCC chief spokesman Mathura Datt Joshi, the PCC president Kishore Upadhyay has stressed ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Congress heavyweights like Yashpal Arya and Dr Shailendra Mohan Singhal, who had saved the congress fortress during general election-2012 because BJP had won seven out of nine assembly seats of Udhamsinghnagar district, have left congress and sailing in BJP boat. Later in the year 2012 then Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna had poached BJP MLA Kiran Mandal, who ...

Haridwar MP and Ex CM Dr Ramesh POkhriyal Nishank , who begins his day reading the newspaper and watching news channels and as the sun starts climbing higher in the sky, surrounded by the people to plan about about how to keep their own home turf intact to defeat chief minister Harish Rawat from Haridwar constituency and establish BJP led government in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Senior BJP leader Matbar Singh Kandari, who failed to prove his candidature before party high command, has joined congress in the presence of chief minister Harish Rawat and state PCC president Kishore Upadhyay here in Dehradun on Saturday. He along with his son Rajiv Kandari has left the BJP and joined the congress. In his reaction Kandari ...

  DAINIK NATION BUREAU     Upset with the party high command, who did not consider her candidature from Gadarpur assembly constituency, the Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary Shilpi Arora resigned from congress. She alleged that Chief minister Harish Rawat kept me in dark and did not include her name into the panel, which was sent to party high command, ...