Saturday, 03 April 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
Gearing up for the Salt assembly by election the Uttarakhand Congress party has constituted a 19 member election coordination committee headed by veteran leader and former speaker of Vidhan Sabha, Govind Singh Kunjwal. Many prominent leaders of Kumaon division have been included in the committee entrusted with spearheading the campaign of Congress candidate Ganga Pancholi in Salt. Addressing the media persons at the Congress Bhawan here on Friday the Vice President of Uttarakhand Congress Surya Kant Dhasmana said that the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Pritam Singh has endorsed the committee. He said that the Rajya Sabha MP Pradeep Tamta, deputy leader of Congress party in Vidhan Sabha Karan Mahra, MLA Harish Dhami, former MLAs Mayukh Mahar, Ganesh Godiyal, Ranjit Rawat, Madan Singh Bisht, Manoj Tiwari, Lalit Pharswan, former MLA and President of Women Congress Sarita Arya, Vice President PCC Dhirendra Pratap and general secretary organisation Vijay Saraswat are the members of the committee. The coordination committee also includes Hemant Bagadwal, Pitamber Pandey, Mahesh Arya and Vikram Singh Rawat. Dhasmana said that the PCC president has directed the committee to come into operational mode immediately.
The by election for the Salt assembly constituency would be held on April 17. The counting of the votes would be on May 2 and the results are expected on the day. The by-election is necessitated due to the death of the BJP MLA Surendra Singh Jeena. Both the Congress and BJP have already submitted the list of 30 start campaigners each to the election commission for Salt.
