The mayoral candidate for Municipal Corporation of Dehradun, Vinod Chamoli along with several veteran party leaders and supporters filed his nomination paper at collectorate campus in Dehradun on Friday.
After the announcement of the names of the mayoral candidates at the state party office in Dehradun on Friday, all candidates have filed their nomination papers. Scores of BJP supporters gathered at Mahanagar office, Parade Ground, Dehradun on Friday afternoon and took out rally in support of Chamoli. The supporters also shouted slogans in the favour of mayoral candidates during the rally till it reached at the collectorate campus. Addressing the gathering, Chamoli assured that residents he would surely introduce various beneficiary steps for the overall development of the capital city. He said that development schemes that were introduced during the BJP regime in the state has come to halt due to the wrongful policies by the Congress led state government. He said that supply of potable water, better road, sanity, health etc. would be his priorities. Among veteran leaders that were present in the rally were former Chief Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, BJP State Chief Tirath Singh Rawat, leader of Opposition in Vidhan Sabha Ajay Bhatt, MlA Harbans Kapoor and Anil Goyal.