Haridwar Lok Sabha Election 2024: BJP’s former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat and state vp of the Congress Virender Rawat will lock horns within the Haridwar Lok Sabha seat which works to polls within the first part of the seven-phased basic elections on April 19. The BJP has changed its two-time sitting MP and former Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal on the seat and given an opportunity to former CM Trivendra Singh Rawat. Congress, too, has changed the candidate who fought within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections – Ambrish Kumar – and fielded a brand new one – Virender Rawat.
Congress and BJP are up for a direct contest against one another on the seat.
Who is Trivendra Singh Rawat?
Trivendra Rawat was a one-time chief minister of Uttarakhand from 2017 to 2021, till being changed by Tirath Singh Rawat, who additionally was succeeded by present Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami inside a interval of six months. Trivendra Rawat was an RSS member from 1979 to 2002. He was elected as an MLA from Doiwala within the first legislative Assembly in 2002, after the formation of the state in 2000. He received the Doiwala seat in 2017 and was named because the chief minister following the social gathering’s victory within the Assembly polls with majority.
Haridwar Lok Sabha seat:
The BJP has received the Haridwar Lok Sabha seat consecutively in 2014 and 2019 through which Ramesh Pokhriyal defeated Congress’ Renuka Rawat and Ambrish Kumar in respective years.
In 2009, Congress chief Harish Rawat had defeated BJP’s Yatindranand Giri.
The BJP and Congress are as soon as once more in a straight contest on the seat in 2024. The outcomes of the elections will likely be declared on June 4.
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