Saturday, 27 APRIL 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Two out of the eight candidates announced by the Indian National Congress on Friday for Lok Sabha elections-2024 in Haryana have Uttarakhand connection.
The party has fielded Kumari Selja from Sirsa (SC) constituency of Haryana. The veteran Congress leader and former union minister Selja holds the position of the in-charge of Uttarakhand Congress.
The Congress party has made Satpal Brhamchari its candidate from Sonipat LS constituency of Haryana. A known face in politics of Uttarakhand, Brhamchari is a former chairman of Haridwar Municipal Corporation. In the assembly elections of 2022, he contested against Madan Kaushik of BJP from Haridwar city assembly constituency. In the election Kaushik defeated him. Brahamchari is the head of two prominent ashrams in Haridwar and is a native of Haryana.
The vice president of Uttarakhand Congress Suryakant Dhasmana said that the party workers are enthused by the candidature of Kumari Selja and Satpal Brahmchari in the Lok Sabha elections from Haryana. He said that many leaders and workers of the Congress party in Uttarakhand are eager to go to Sirsa and Sonipat from where Kumari Selja and Satpal Brahmchari are contesting respectively. He said that the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) will discuss the names of the leaders who will go to Haryana in support of Selja and Brahmchari. Dhasmana expressed confidence that Congress candidates will win all the seats in Haryana.
