Hindustan Times, Press Trust Of India, Dehra Dun: A neck- and - neck race
is on in Uttarakhand where the ruling BJP is leading in 27 seats and the Congress in 28 in the 70-member Assembly. BSP was leading in five seats while Uttarakhand Kranti Dal-Panwar (UKD-P) was leading in one seat while others were ahead in the rest of the five seats. Chief minister BC Khanduri was trailing from Kotdwar seat by 90 votes against SS Negi of Congress. Congress leader Indira Haridayesh was leading with 4000 votes from Haldwani
Exit polls have shown that Congress has an edge over BJP in Uttarakhand. Will CM BC Khanduri prove poll pundits wrong?
constituency against Renu Adhikari of BJP. However, state BJP president Bishan Singh Chufal was leading by 688 votes from Didihaat constituency. Senior Congress leader Harish Rawat said his party will get "comfortable majority" in Uttarakhand to form government on its own. "As far as chief ministership is concerned, that will be decided by the party. But Congress will form the government in Uttarakhand that I am confident. We will form the government with the quiet good margin," Rawat, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, said. Source: Hindustan Times
