BJP, Cong heading for another showdown in U’khand civic body polls today

Dehradun: The stage is set for another electoral showdown between the ruling BJP and the Congress in Uttarakhand with the urban local body polls being held on Thursday.

Campaigning for the urban local body polls ended at 5 pm on Tuesday with both parties throwing all their might to woo voters.

Chief Minister and BJP’s star campaigner Pushkar Singh Dhami held a series of public meetings and roadshows across the state during the nearly three-week long campaign seeking votes for a “triple-engine” government to keep the pace of development uninterrupted.

He also touted policy moves like introduction of a UCC Act and stringent land laws which will make it difficult for outsiders to buy limitless land in the state and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s grand vision for the hill state to mobilise voters in support of the party.

Other steps highlighted by him during the campaign were strengthening of road, rail and air connectivity in the state, introduction of a stringent anti-copying law for recruitment examinations and an anti-conversion law.

The Congress which suffered desertions ahead of the civic body polls including by state party vice president Mathura Dutt Joshi also left no stone unturned to strengthen its chances by countering the BJP’s “tall claims” about

development and asserting nothing was actually delivered on ground.