The BJP has announced its candidates for 11 mayor seats in Uttarakhand for the upcoming urban local body elections. The party first announced its candidates for six seats and then for the remaining five seats. Kiran Jaisal is the party’s candidate for the post of mayor in Haridwar, Asha Upadhyay from Srinagar, Shailendra Rawat from Kotdwar, Kalpana Devlal from Pithoragarh, Ajay Verma from Almora and Vikas Sharma from Rudrapur. The BJP has fielded Saurabh Thapliyal for Dehradun mayor, Shambhu Paswan for Rishikesh, Anita Devi Agarwal for Roorkee, Gajraj Singh Bisht for Haldwani and Deepak Bali for Kashipur.
Elections to 100 municipal bodies, including 11 municipal corporations, 43 municipal councils and 46 nagar panchayats in the state are scheduled to be held on January 23. Voting will be done through ballot papers and the results will be declared on January 25. At present, BJP is the dominant party in the municipal bodies of Uttarakhand. There are a total of 30,83,500 voters in the state, of which 14,93,519 are women, 15,89,467 are men and 514 are others.
