 "Uttarakhand assembly polls: Congress releases first list of 53 candidates")
The Congress on Saturday released its first list of 53 candidates for the Uttarakhand Assembly elections.
Uttarakhand Congress president Ganesh Godiyal will contest from the Srinagar seat while Leader of Opposition in the outgoing assembly Pritam Singh has been fielded from the Chakrata (ST) constituency.
The names of former chief minister Harish Rawat and Harak Singh Rawat, who joined the party only on Friday, do not figure in the first list of the party.
Yashpal Arya, a former BJP minister who had recently joined the Congress, has been fielded from his Bajpur (SC) constituency.
Sumit Hridayesh, the son of senior Congress leader Indira Hridayesh who died in June last year, has been fielded from Haldwani assembly seat.
The Congress is seeking to wrest power back from the BJP in the hill state.
Elections will be held for 70 assembly seats in Uttarakhand on February 14 and the results will be out on March 10.
(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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