The name of the next chief minister of Uttarakhand will be announced at the Legislative Party meeting scheduled to take place in the evening today.
Gehlot remarks came after Sibal triggered a row with his comments that the Gandhis should step aside and give other leaders a chance to lead the Congress.
Sources said that BJP chief JP Nadda, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and party national General Secretary, Organisation, BL Santhosh were present in the meeting, chaired by Modi.
The Congress, which fought under the leadership of Rawat, won just 19 seats against BJP's 47 out of a total of 70 assembly seats, with political observers attributing the loss to factionalism in the opposition party besides other factors.
Uttarakhand outgoing Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami resigned to pave way for the formation of the new government in the state after the conclusion of the Assembly elections.
The crucial Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting after the poll debacle in 5 states is underway in Delhi. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Ambika Soni, Salman Khurshid, Ajay Maken, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, P Chidambaram, Ashok Gehlot, other leaders present.
Dhami's defeat from Khatima, a seat he had been winning since 2012, was the most notable on a day that saw the BJP win 47 out of 70 assembly seats in the state.
The Bhartiya Janata Party won the Vidhan Sabha elections in Uttarakhand with a thumping majority. However, present CM Pushkar Singh Dhami lost the elections from the Khatima constituency on Thursday.
In the last Assembly elections too, Harish Rawat had lost both seats he had contested. The defeat in the elections has put a question mark on the five-time MP and former Union minister’s political future.
Rahul Gandhi's comments came after the Congress failed to make a mark in the assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur, and lost Punjab to the AAP.
BJP leader and current Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami lost the seat with a margin of 6,000 votes to Congress's Bhuwan Chandra Kapri.
The relaxation will be subject to existing instructions of state disaster management authorities (SDMA) and preventive measures imposed by concerned district authorities.
In 2017, Shri Harbans Kapoor of Bharatiya Janata Party won the seat by defeating Shri Suryakant Dhasmana from Indian National Congress with a margin of 16670 votes.
In 2017, Ganesh Joshi of Bharatiya Janata Party won the seat by defeating Godawari Thapli from Indian National Congress with a margin of 12077 votes.
In 2017, Manoj Rawat of Indian National Congress won the seat by defeating Kuldeep Singh Rawat from Independent with a margin of 869 votes.
The INC candidate has won 36.32% votes so far, while AAP's CM candidate Kothiyal only managed to bag 10.35% votes.
BJP's candidate Dr. Mohan Singh Bisht is seemingly heading towards victory over Congress's Harish Rawat in Lalkuwa.
In 2017, this constituency was won by the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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Prominent candidates trailing in their respective seats included Congress veteran Harish Rawat, who was behind Mohan Singh Bisht of the BJP by 12048 votes in Lalkuan and Subodh Uniyal of the BJP, who was trailing behind Om Gopal Rawat of the Congress in Narendra Nagar by 231 votes.
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