The BJP has released its first list of 59 candidates for the polls to the 70-member Uttarakhand Assembly, with Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to contest from his current constituency Khatima. The party, which had won 57 seats in 2017, has dropped around 10 sitting MLAs. State BJP president Madan Kaushik will again contest from Haridwar, while names of ministers like Satpal Maharaj and Dhan Singh Rawat are also in the list. Fifteen candidates are Brahmins and three from the trading community, Joshi noted. Assembly polls will be held in the state on February 14 and counting will take place on March 10.
Constituency Candidates
- Purola (SC) - Durgeshwar Lal
- Yamunotri - Kedar Singh Rawat
- Gangotri - Suresh Chauhan
- Badrinath - Mahendra Bhatt
- Tharali (SC) - Bhopal Ram Tamta
- Karnprayag - Anil Nautiyal
- Rudraprayag - Bharat Singh Chaudhary
- Ghanshali (SC) - Shakti Lal Shah
- Deoprayag - Vinod Kandari
- Narendranagar - Subodh Uniyal
- Pratapnagar - Bijay Singh Panwar Urf Guddu Bhai
- Dhanolti - Pritam Singh Panwar
- Chakrata (ST) - Ramsharan Nautiyal
- Vikasnagar - Munna Singh Chauhan
- Sahaspur - Sahdev Singh Pundir
- Dharampur - Vinod Chamoli
- Raipur - Umesh Sharma Kawu
- Rajpur Road (SC) - Khajan Dass
- Dehradun Cantt. - Savita Kapoor
- Mussoorie - Ganesh Joshi
- Rishikesh - Premchand Aggrawal
- Hardwar - Madan Kaushik
- BHEL Ranipur - Adesh Chauhan
- Jwalapur (SC) - Suresh Rathore
- Bhagwanpur (SC) - Master Satya Pal
- Roorkee - Pradeep Batra
- Khanpur - Kunwarani Devyani
- Manglore - Dinesh Pawar
- Laksar - Sanjay Gupta
- Hardwar Rural - Swami Yatishwaranand
- Yamkeshwar - Renu Bisht
- Pauri (SC) - Raj Kumar Pori
- Srinagar - Dhan Singh Rawat
- Chubattakhal - Satpal Maharaj
- Lansdowne - Dileep Singh Rawat
- Dharchula - Dhan Singh Dhami
- Didihat - Bishan Singh Chufal
- Pithoragarh - Chandra Pant
- Gangolihat (SC) - Fakir Ram Tamta
- Kapkote - Suresh Garia
- Bageshwar - Chandan Ram Dass
- Dwarahat - Anil Shahi
- Salt - Mahesh Jeena
- Someshwar (SC) - Rekha Arya
- Almora - Kailash Sharma
- Lohanghat - Puran Singh Fartyal
- Champawat - Kailash Gahtori
- Bhimtal - Ram Singh Kaira
- Nainital (SC) - Sarita Arya
- Kaladhungi - Bansidhar Bhagat
- Ramnagar - Diwan Singh Bisht
- Jaspur - Dr. Shailendra Mohan Singhai
- Kashipur - Trilok Singh Cheema
- Bajpur - Rajesh Kumar
- Gadarpur - Arvind Pandey
- Kichha - Rajesh Shukla
- Sitarganj - Saurabh Bahuguna
- Nanak Matta (ST) - Prem Singh Rana
- Khatima - Pushkar Singh Dhami
- Thakurdwara - Ajay Pratap Singh
- Kedarnath - Shaila Rani Rawat
- Jhabrera - Rajpal Singh
- Pirankaliyar - Muneesh Saini
- Kotdwar - Reetu Bhushan Khanduri
- Ranikhet - Pramod Nainiwal
- Jageshwar - Mohan Singh Mehra
- Lalkuwa - Mohan Singh Bisht
- Haldwani - Jogendrapal Singh Routela
- Rudrapur - Shiv Arora
- Tehri - Kishore Upadhyay
