Uttarakhand Polls

Uttarakhand Assembly Election: CM Pushkar Singh Dhami to file nomination from Khatima today

The Uttarakhand state legislative Assembly election is scheduled to be held on 14 February, while the counting of the votes will take place on 10 March

Uttarakhand polls: Amid ban on physical campaign, political parties battle it out on social media

While Congress has deployed its team of 400 social media volunteers to spread the party's message, BJP has already held 18 virtual meetings through its studios in the state

Uttarakhand polls: BJP releases first list of 59 candidates; CM Dhami to contest from Khatima, 10 sitting MLAs dropped

Among the 11 seats for which the BJP has not named its candidates are Kotdwar and Doiwala. Harak Singh Rawat, who was expelled from the party recently, represents Kotdwar while former chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat is an MLA from Doiwala

Former BJP leader Harak Singh Rawat breaks down after being expelled from the party

Rawat has accused the BJP of sacking him without talking to him even once and asserted that if he had not left the Congress to join the BJP, he would have resigned from the ruling party long ago

Ahead of Uttarakhand polls, Arvind Kejriwal vows Rs 1 crore for kin of security personnel killed in action

He said that Colonel (retired) Ajay Kothiyal, who is AAP's chief ministerial face in upcoming elections, will himself go and meet the families of the deceased personnel to hand over the money to them

Appointing Charanjit Singh Channi Punjab CM 'good move', left big impact on Dalit voters, says Harish Rawat

The Congress’ Punjab in-charge in an interview with News18 said that he would like to see a Dalit chief minister in Uttarakhand too

Uttarakhand: Growth inequality is emptying out villages in India's sixth richest state

Results for the recently held Uttarakhand assembly elections will be released tomorrow, yet no matter which political party comes to power, it has its hands full.

Uttarakhand Election 2017: Polling under way with Congress-BJP locked in straight contests on most seats

Polling began to the 69 of the 70 assembly seats of Uttarakhand amid tight security on Wednesday with people queueing up outside polling booths since early morning to cast their votes.

Uttarakhand Election 2017: The relatively prosperous state has poor child health indicators

The relatively prosperous, mountainous state of Uttarakhand does worse than many poorer states with its infant mortality rate (IMR).

Uttarakhand Election 2017: BJP says party rebels will not affect its prospect in polls

As BJP expelled 17 rebels for fighting against the party's nominees in Uttarakhand polls, state party chief has described them as "over-ambitious people".