Uttarakhand Congress has fielded PCC vice President Suryakant Dhasmana as candidate for Mayor of Dehradun Municipal Corporation election on Friday. By fielding Dhasmana congress has made election triangle between BSP candidate Eunuch Rajni Rawat, Suryakant Dhasmana and BJP candidate Vinod Chamoli. In which Dhasmana will be new face in this election while both Rajni and Chamoli had fought last mayor election in 2008. In which Chamoli had won and Rajni had achieved second position by procuring around 40,000 votes.
Talking to media person Dhasmana, who was facing firing over Rajya Aadolankari during Uttarakhand agitation, said earlier court has given him clean chit now he is going in public court. He expressed hope that public will bless him to serve the Dehradun.
Political analysts say that Dhasmana, who was one of the authorities of Dehradun during Mulayam Singh regime while it was part of Uttar Pradesh and had received blot on his face during state agitation, has got an opportunity to show his charisma. Since inception of Uttarakhand, he had contested assembly election against the Congress candidate Harak Singh Rawat in lansdowne assembly constituency and become state head of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and later joined Congress in the presence of state PCC president Yashpal Arya.
In 2008 he was made media in charge of Uttarakhand congress and played crucial role in media management during general election-2009. He is partronising more than a dozen unions and associations so party has expressed hope.