Thursday, 17 AUGUST 2023 | PNS | BAGESHWAR
Parvati Dass, the BJP candidate and widow of Chandan Ram Dass filed her nomination paper for the Bageshwar assembly by- election on Wednesday. She was accompanied by president of Uttarakhand BJP Mahendra Bhatt, minister in charge of Bageshwar district, Saurabh Bahuguna, former chairperson of Bageshwar municipality Subodh Lal Sah and former district president Shiv Singh Bisht. Interacting with the media persons after filing of nomination papers by Dass, the state BJP president Bhatt claimed that the party candidate will register a landslide victory in the by-election. He said that the people of Bageshwar will reject the negative politics of Congress party and give its tribute to late Chandan Ram Dass by making the BJP victorious. Bhatt said that the party was preparing for the elections for the last two months.
Immediately after the nomination of Parvati Dass an election rally was organised by the BJP at Numaish Maidan in Bageshwar. The chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami attended the rally. He said that with the presence of such a large number of people in this public meeting there is no doubt about the victory of the BJP candidate. He also paid a rich tribute to the late Chandan Ram Dass.
Meanwhile the Congress party has made Basant Kumar its candidate for the by-election. He will file his nomination papers on Thursday. In the assembly election held in the year 2022, Chandan Ram Dasss of BJP won from the Bageshwar reserved assembly seat by defeating his nearest rival Ranjeet Das of Congress party. The voting for the by-election will be held on September 5 and the counting of votes will be done on September 8 and the result will be declared on the same day.
