Uttarakhand polls: Will 'sympathy card' work again?

PITHORAGARH: After the death of former

Pithoragarh MLA

and state finance minister, Prakash Pant, on June 5, 2019, his wife Chandra Pant won the by-election from the seat in November 2019 on what was believed to be a sympathy vote. The saffron party has chosen

Chandra

once again for the seat that Prakash Pant had won thrice in 2002, 2007 and 2017 but lost in 2012 to Congress leader Mayukh

Mahar

, two-time zila panchayat chairman and two-time MLA.

Chandra Pant had in 2019 defeated Congress's Anju Lunthi.

Mahar did not fight the by-election in 2019. Others in the fray are

Chandra Prakesh Punera

(AAP), Khurshid Ahamad (BSP), Kartik Tamta (Azad Party), Virendra Veer Vikram Singh (SP) and Nitin Maharana (independent). In this constituency, there are a total of 1,09,172 voters, of which 55,103 are women and 54,069 men.

Spelling out his agenda "Development will also be my priority. People here know my work. I have undertaken projects like Aawala ghat, base hospital, sports hostel and nursing hostel," said Mahar. Pants wife, on the other hand, said, "For the past five years, my husband and I have worked relentlessly for the development of the area and when the opposition questions our efforts, it disheartens me," said Chandra.


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