BJP drops four sitting MLAs

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, January 16

The Central Election Committee of the BJP today released the list of 64 candidates. The party has retained 22 sitting legislators and dropped four.

The candidates, who have not been given the ticket, include former BJP president and Chaubatakhal MLA Teerath Singh Rawat and Chandershekhar Bhattawala from Jwalapur and Vijay Barthwal, sitting MLA from Yamkeshwar.

The party has not yet decided on the high-profile Assembly seats of Vikasnagar and Chakrata from where Munna Singh Chauhan and Madhu Chauhan are staking claim.

The party has given 11 ticket to former Congress MLAs.

who have shifted their loyality to the BJP.

BJP CANDIDATES

• Purola -Malchand sitting MLA
• Yamnotri - Kedar Singh Rawat 
• Gangotri - Gopal Rawat
• Badrinath - Mahendra Bhatt
• Tharali (SC) - Maganlal Shah
• Karanprayag - Surinder Singh Negi
• Kedarnath - Shaila Rani Rawat 
• Rudraprayag - Bharat Singh Chaudhury
• Ghansali (SC) - Shakti Lal Shah
• Deoprayag - Vinod Kandari
• Narendernagar - Subodh Uniyal
• Pratapnagar - Vijay Singh Panwar
• Tehri - Dhan Singh Negi
• Dhanolti - Narayan Singh Rana
• Sahaspur - Sahdev Pundir
• Raipur - Umesh Sharma (kau) 
• Rajpur Road - Khazan Das
• Dehradun Cant - Harbans Kapoor
• Mussoorie - Ganesh Joshi
• Doiwala - Trivender Singh Rawat
• Rishikesh - Prem Chand Aggarwal
• Hardwar - Madan Kaushik
• BHEL Ranipur - Adesh Chauhan (sitting MLA)
• Jwalapur (SC) - Suresh Rathore
• Bhagwanpur (SC) - Subodh Rakesh
• Jhabrera(SC) - Deshraj Karnwal
• PiranKaliyar - Jaibhagwan Saini
• Roorkee - Pradeep Batra
• Khanpur - Kunwar Pranav Singh Champion
• Manglore - Rishipal Baliyan
• Laksar - Sanjay Gupta (sitting MLA)
• Hardwar rural - Yateshwar Nand (sitting MLA)
• Yamkeshwar - Ritu Khanduri
• Pauri (SC) - Mukesh Koli
• Srinagar - Dhan SinghRawat 
• Chaubatakhal - Satpal Maharaj
• Landsdowne - Dilip Singh (sitting MLA) 
• Kotdwar - Harak Singh Rawat 
• Dharchula - Virender Singh Pal 
• Didihat - BS Chuphal (sitting MLA)
• Pithoragarh - Prakash Pant 
• Gangolihat (SC) - Meena Gangola
• Kapkote - Balwant Singh Bhoriyal 
• Bageshwar (SC) - Chander Ram Das
• Dawarahat - Mahesh Negi
• Salt - Surinder Singh Jena
• Raniketh - Ajay Bhatt 
• Someshwar - Rekha Arya  
• Kashipur - Harbhajan Singh Cheema 
• Bajpur (SC) - Yashpal Arya 
• Gadarpur - Arvind Pandey (sitting MLA)
• Rudrapur - Rajkumar Thukral (sitting MLA)
• Kicha - Rajesh Shukla (sitting MLA)
• Sitarganj - Saurabh Bahuguna
• Nanakmata (ST) - Prem Singh Rana 
• Khatima - Pushkar Singh Dhami
• Almora - Raghunath Singh Chauhan 
• Lohaghat - Puran Singh Farthyal (sitting MLA) 
• Lal Kuan - Naveen Dumka
• Kala Dungi - Bansidhar Bhagat (sitting MLA) 
• Jaspur - Shailender Mohan Singhal
• Rudrapur - Rajkumar Thukral (sitting MLA)
• Kichha - Rajesh Shukla,(sitting MLA)
• Champawat - Kailash Gehotri