Eleven municipal corporations, forty-three municipal councils, and forty-six Nagar Panchayats are up for election in Uttarakhand.
Harish Rawat, a Congress leader and former chief minister of Uttarakhand, cast his ballot in the hill state’s municipal council elections in Dehradun on Thursday morning. But he was unable to.
Mr. Rawat, a longtime city dweller who cast ballots in the April–June federal election and the 2022 Assembly election from Dehradun’s Niranjanpur neighborhood, was informed that his name had vanished from the voter list and that nothing could be done about it.
Since 2009, the Congress veteran has cast his ballot from Niranjanpur in Dehradun.
Taking a scathing jab at the BJP, he told news agency PTI, “I have been waiting since morning… but my name was not found at the polling station at which 9I voted in the Lok Sabha election.” He further said, “I should have been more alert… knowing they are involved in adding and removing names from the list.”
VIDEO | Dehradun Municipal Elections: Congress leader Harish Rawat raises concerns over voting issues.
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"I have been waiting since morning… but my name was not found at the polling station where I voted in the Lok Sabha elections. They are now searching for it… let's see what… pic.twitter.com/ZnNKmaD00n
Elections are being held across Uttarakhand for 11 municipal corporations, 43 municipal councils, and 46 Nagar Panchayats.
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, who leads the BJP government in the state, this morning called on all voters to exercise their franchise, and “please make the BJP candidates win”.
“I appeal to all the people of Uttarakhand; you have always stood by the BJP and (helped) form a double-engine government. You made Narendra Modi the Prime Minister, again. I appeal to all of you… please make all BJP candidates win and help form a triple-engine government,” he said.
