The election campaign for the four municipal board and one Nagar Panchayat election in the Pauri district is in full swing. The Congress, BJP, BSP and all Independent candidates are making all efforts to woo the voters by visiting their door steps.
The Congress and the BJP candidates for the post of president in municipal board Pauri and Srinagar facing tough fight from independent candidates particularly those deprived from getting ticket from the party and contesting election as an independent candidate, but in Kotdwar municipal board's president election, the fight is mainly between Congress and BJP and in Duggada the straight fight is between two Independent candidates. The distribution of ticket in Pauri and Srinagar has divided the party workers and now they are opposing the party candidates.
Eleven candidates are in the battle field for the post of president in municipal board Pauri, where Congress candidate is Virendra Singh Rawat, Dalbir Singh Negi is BJP candidate, Bhagwan Singh Tamta is BSP candidate and eight candidates are independent. The Congress rebel, Sumant Singh Negi is contesting election as an Independent candidate, while on the public pressure for the development of Pauri and welfare of the citizen, Jas pal Singh Negi is in the election as independent candidate and other fighting election as independent are Yashpal Benam, Kusum Chamoli, Manish, Sandeep Chandola and Yashwant.
In the election for the post of president in Srinagar Municipal Board, Congress fielded Virendra Singh Negi as his candidate and Congress rebels Mohan lal Jain and Himanshu Agrawal fighting as independent candidate. Mohan lal Jain had been the president of Nagar Palika for two terms and Himashu Agrawal holding in the businessman. The Congress party has sacked both rebels from party, but the independent candidate Bipin Maithani who lost the last election by 11 votes is in the fight. Krishnanand Maiithani, who hold the post for one term is the BJP candidate and total eight candidates are in the election fight.