The Kedarnath assembly bypoll in Uttarakhand recorded around 57 per cent voting by 5 pm on Wednesday even as the Election Commission of India was yet to announce final figures with likely margin of around 3 per cent increase.
With the polling day for Kedarnath assembly bypoll drawing closer the BJP has intensified its campaign to save its prestige in the country's prominent sanatan pilgrimage center.
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This seat from district Rudraprayag recently fell vacant due to the sudden demise of the incumbent, MLA Shaila Rani Rawat, on 9 July.
Harish Rawat said the BJP was afraid of its imminent defeat in the Kedarnath assembly by-election for which polling will be held on November 20.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said the chardham pilgrimage will set a new record of pilgrims footfall this season.
The State Tourism Department called it a sign of record breaking flow of pilgrims to the four shrines as the pilgrimage season is scheduled to start on May 10.
The shower coupled with the snow is billed to be a timely gift for the rabi and horticulture crops of the state.
The ITBP platoons were deployed at Badrinath and Kedarnath shrines on Sunday as the Centre agreed to the Pushkar Singh Dhami government's demand that better security arrangents were needed in the area during winters.
Hitting out at the party further, Yogi alleged when the Congress was in power at the Centre and in the state, it had abandoned victims of the Kedarnath tragedy.
