Lalkuwa Election Results 2022: Harish Rawat accepts defeat ahead of official announcement; BJP’s Mohan Singh Bisht leads by over 16000 votes

Lalkuwa Election Results 2022 Live, Harish Rawat Election Results 2022: Former chief minister Harish Rawat has accepted his defeat from the Lalkuwa seat from where BJP candidate Mohan Singh Bisht is leading by a margin of over 16000 votes. Rawat apologised to the voters for not being able to earn the trust of the voters. The Lalkuwa assembly constituency falls under the Nainital district in Uttarakhand. The former chief minister and senior Congress leader Harish Rawat is contesting from the Lalkuwa seat this year after the Congress party reshuffled his seat. Earlier, Rawat was to contest from the Ramnagar seat but the party changed his seat. Rawat became chief minister in 2014 when Vijay Bahuguna was made to resign. Rawat then won the 2014 by-election from the Dharchula assembly seat. He contested the 2017 assembly elections from two seats – Haridwar Rural and Kichha – but lost from both the constituencies.

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The Lalkuwa seat was bagged by BJP’s Naveen Chandra Dumka in the 2017 elections. This time, the BJP has fielded Dr. Mohan Singh Bisht from the seat. Bisht was expelled from the BJP for six years in 2019 after he successfully contested the district panchayat election as an independent candidate against the BJP nominee. However, he rejoined the party in January this year ahead of the polls. On the other hand, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has fielded Chandrashekar Pandey from the seat. The voting for the 70-member Uttarakhand assembly was held on February 14.

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