The final list of the BJP candidates for the post of MCD was not issued by the party till late on Thursday evening. Even after having rounds of dialogues with the veteran leaders during Parliamentary Board meeting (Election Committee), the name for the mayoral candidate has not yet finalized by the leaders till late in the evening.
The high voltage drama continued and party leaders are yet to reach to conclusion to disclose the name for Dehradun, Haridwar and Roorkee municipal corporations.
However, the committee has approved the name of candidates for municipal councils in the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions of Uttarakhand.
The party has fielded Bhagirath lal Chowdhury at Ramnagar, Dinesh Bhatia at Kitchha, Neeru Agarwal at Khatima, Ganga Singh Panwar at Gairsain, Snehlata Sharma at Rishikesh, Dalbir Singh at Pauri, Sunita Devi at Kotdwar, Shakuntala Rajput at Swargashram chowk and Sanjay Kumar at Nainital. Besides, the party has also given ticket to Rajesh Negi and Vimal Singh Rawat at Bheemtal and Gangolihat town areas. later in the evening, the party has issued list of 60 councilors of Municipal Corporation of Dehradun.
As per the list, Roshan Bala (Rajpur), Neetu Valmiki (Shastardhara), Daya Joshi (Jakhan), Bhupinder Kaithat (Hathi-bar-kala), Sarojini Panwar (Aryanagar), Manohar Bhandari (Dobhalwala), Satinder Nath (Vijay Colony), Nandini Sharma(Rajender Nagar), Hemlata (Dl road), Rani Kaur (Rispana), Abhishek Bora(Karanpur), VS Rana(Bakralwala), Deepa Shah (Chukhumohalla), Atul Sonkar (Indira Colony), Dinesh Kathuria (Clock Tower), Jaipal Valmiki (Race course), Arun Khanna (MKP), Charanjeet Kaur Nagpal (Kalika Mandir), Sabita Oberai (Chakrata Rao), PK Bhatt (Khurbura), Vipin Chanchal (Shivaji Marg), Tripta Jatav (Indresh nagar), Naresh Chandok (Dhamawala), Ajay Singhal (Jhanda Mohalla), Pinki Semwal (Dalanwala-North), NC Sharma (Dalanwala-East), Rakesh Machkola (Dalanwala-South), MS Rathore (Adhoiwala-North), Rajesh Rawat (Adhoiwala-South), Kamli Bhatt (Bhagat Singh Colony), Varsha Badooni ( Rajeev Nagar), Rajender Rawat( Defence colony), Beena Uniyal (Nehru Colony), Neeru Bhatt(Dharampur), Darshanlal Binjola(Deepnagar), BS Daundiyal(Ajabpur),Kamla Rawat (Mata Mandir), Rakhi Barathwal (Race Coursr-South), Rajkumar Kakkar (Rest Camp), Ruksana (Reeta Mandi), Sushil Gupta (lakhibagh), Anita Devi (Kargi), Mahipal Dhiman (Patel Nagar-East), Jasveer Singh (Brahmpuri), Neeraj Sethi (Niranjanpur), Deepa Thakur (Majjra), Subhash Chauhan (Turner road), Omendera Bhati(Indirapuram), Baburam (Dronpuri), Archana Pundir (Kanwali), Meera Kaithat (Indira Nagar), Anju Bisht (Vasant Vihar), Amita Singh (Mohit Nagar), Anita Singh (Patel Nagar –West), Rohit Maura (Gandhigram), Neha Gupta (Yamuna Colony), Surender Kukreja (Govindgarh), Pravesh (Sri Devsuman Nagar), Sharda Gupta (Ballupur) and Usha Nautiyal (Kaulagarh).
‘Only deserving candidates in list’
Couple of supporters of Subash Kashyap staged protest at BJP party office in Dehradun on Thursday evening after the party issued the list of councillors for Municipal Corporation of Dehradun.
However, party leaders did not pay much attention to their agitation and tried to convince them that only deserving candidates having clean image were preferred while drafting the list. Besides, the party leaders also ruled out any pressure from higher leaders while drafting the list.