As Uttarakhand goes to polls, CM Dhami is among the first to cast a ballot.
CM Dhami
Early on Friday during the Lok Sabha elections in Uttarakhand, poll officials reported that about 11% of voters cast ballots.
Voting started at 7 a.m., and by 9 a.m., 10.54 percent of voters had cast their ballots. According to them, Haridwar has had the highest polling percentage thus far—12,49 percent—followed by Tehri Garhwal (10,23 percent), Almora (10,13 percent), Nainital-Udham Singh Nagar (9,83 percent), and Pauri garhwal (9,46 percent).
CM Dhami was one of the first to vote.
When CM Dhami and his mother and wife Geeta came to the Nagra Terai voting place in Khatima, they lined up to cast their ballots.
FIRST PHASE OF ELECTIONS FOR FIVE UTTARAKHAND LOK SABHA SEATS IS SCHEDULED FOR THIS FRIDAY.
In an interview with reporters, the prime minister observed that people are quite enthusiastic.
“Uttarakhand has undergone unparalleled progress in the past ten years. All social classes have profited from it. They’re going to vote to give Narendra Modi a third term,” CM Dhami stated.
Additionally, he discussed the BJP’s Sankalp Patra, which discusses the necessity of a nationwide UCC similar to the one that the Uttarakhand Assembly enacted.
“The Ganga of UCC which has originated from Uttarakhand will flow throughout the country,” he stated.
Along with his wife and two daughters, former chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, the BJP’s candidate from Haridwar, cast his ballot and expressed confidence in winning the seat with a margin of more than five lakh votes.
The votes were also cast by yoga master Ramdev and his assistant Acharya Balkrishna.
The two voted at around ten in the morning at the Dadubagh polling place in the Kankhal neighborhood of the pilgrimage town.
Together with other voters, they waited in line for their turn.
Ramdev informed reporters that he had voted in favor of the nation’s prosperity based on its cultural legacy and tradition.
“I have voted to free India from economic, educational, medical and cultural slavery,” he stated.
In an effort to support democracy, he also urged people to leave their houses and utilize their right to vote.
Anil Baluni, the Pauri Garhwal candidate and national spokesman for the BJP, also voted.
Haridwar, Pauri Garhwal, Tehri Garhwal, Nainital-Udham Singh Nagar, and the one reserved seat of Almora are the five seats in Uttarakhand that will be put to vote.
More than 83 lakh voters are eligible to decide the fate of 55 candidates in the fray.
