With nomination process completing on Thursday, battlelines are drawn for polls of various posts of Uttarakhand Sachiwalaya Sangh. The polls would see the tough battle for the coveted post of the president for which 10 candidates filed their nomination.
Similarly, four candidates each filed the nomination for the post of Vice president, General Secretary, Joint secretary, and treasurer. For the members’ posts of various categories, 13 candidates filed their nomination of which six were elected unopposed. In assistant review officer category Ajay Kumar, Girish Chandra Joshi followed by Dheerendra Singh Negi in security category, Sanjay Agarwal in review officer category, Sompal Singh and one other in additional personal secretary category were elected unopposed.
The nomination papers would be scrutinized between 11-5pm on Friday which the last day for withdrawal of nomination, election officer Mastu Das, who received the nomination papers from the candidates, said. The polls would be held between 9am and 4pm on September 4.
Interestingly, only two women are the candidates. Yukta Mittal filed the nomination for the post of member and Reeta Kaul for the post of vice president. A total of 1,014 candidates would decide the fate of candidates in fray. After the polls, counting of the votes would begin from 5pm.