DehradunUttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will win more than 60 seats in the state this time. Making the victory symbol ‘V’, Dhami claimed that the BJP would form the next government in the state.
“You let March 10 come,” Dhami told reporters at the state party headquarters here, a day after polling for all 70 assembly seats in the state was held on Monday. You will see that we will cross 60 (mark).” The BJP had won 57 seats in the 2017 assembly elections in the state and this time it had given the slogan ‘Abki baar, sixty paar’. The election results will come on March 10. Asked about an alleged mining video that went viral recently, the Chief Minister alleged that the previous Congress governments exploited mining in the state and encouraged mining mafia.
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He said that the people of the state were seeing who did what. Chief Minister Dhami kept smiling and repeatedly showing the victory symbol of ‘V’ amidst drum beats for a long time. He was accompanied by BJP’s state unit spokesperson Ravindra Jugran, Rajya Sabha member Naresh Bansal and other senior party leaders.
Meanwhile, Congress General Secretary Harish Rawat said that the BJP government is going away from the state and Congress is coming to power. He claimed that the Congress would win at least 48 of the 70 assembly seats in the state.