Dehradun: This time 62.5 percent voting has been done for the Uttarakhand Assembly Elections 2022. With this, the luck of 632 candidates, including CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, Harish Rawat, Satpal Maharaj, has turned into EVMs. Not only this, the polling in the state in a single-phase has been peaceful except for minor scuffles between supporters of some political parties in Haridwar and Nainital.
After the Uttarakhand assembly elections, CM Pushkar Singh Dhami said that the people of the state participated in the voting with great enthusiasm and voting has also been enough, so I thank the people of Uttarakhand. With this, he said that everyone has voted peacefully and we are grateful to all. We hope that the future of Uttarakhand will be golden by the new government. Let us tell you that in the 2017 assembly elections, the BJP had won 57 seats and Congress 11. While two seats were won by independent candidates.
Voter turnout this time
However, in the 2017 assembly elections, 65.56 percent of the vote was cast. During this, Congress got 33.50 percent of the votes, but it was reduced to just 11 seats, performing the worst in the history of Uttarakhand. At the same time, the BJP had won a historic victory by winning 57 seats with the help of 46.50 percent. However, this time only 62.5 percent of voting has taken place.
Not only this, the Uttarakhand Election Commission said that voting has been completed peacefully at 11697 polling places in all 70 assembly constituencies of 13 districts of the state, which is 62.5 percent. With this, the election officer said that I would also like to express my gratitude to all the employees and security personnel posted in the election duty, who have played an important role in the peaceful election process while discharging their official duties with complete integrity, honesty and fair transparency. With this said that I am very grateful to the electronic and print media of the state. With his incomparable support in the election process, the access of every citizen/voter was made easy.
Will the myth be broken?
Uttarakhand has seen 11 chief ministers in the last two decades. At the same time, people have voted against the incumbent government in every assembly election since the formation of the state in 2000. In this election, CM Pushkar Singh Dhami from BJP and Harish Rawat from Congress was the face of the election campaign, but now it remains to be seen who gets victory on March 10. By the way, in view of the tradition of both the parties coming to power alternately in the state, this time the hopes of the Congress are feathered. The BJP, on the other hand, is confident of its victory due to the various development projects started in different areas in the last five years. Apart from this, besides getting his party back in power in the elections before Dhami, the other challenge before him is to break the tradition of Chief Ministers losing themselves in elections. Let us tell you that the Chief Minister never wins in Uttarakhand. In the year 2002, Nityanand Swami lost, in 2012 Bhuvanchandra Khanduri lost and in 2017 Harish Rawat lost from both the seats. Whereas in Uttarakhand, Narayan Dutt Tiwari, the only Chief Minister who completed a five-year term, did not contest the election.
Never win education minister
Apart from the CM in Uttarakhand, there is also a myth that the education minister does not win his next election. Tirath Singh Rawat, Narendra Singh Bhandari, Govind Singh Bisht, Khajan Das, and Prasad Naithani have failed to break this myth. Now there is Education Minister Arvind Pandey in the state and he is in the fray from the Gadarpur seat. He is an MLA for four consecutive terms. Twice he has won elections from Bajpur and twice from Gadarpur seat.
