{"id":1710,"date":"2022-02-05T09:46:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T09:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2022-02-05T09:46:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T09:46:11","slug":"interesting-contest-in-the-offing-on-pithoragarh-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/05\/interesting-contest-in-the-offing-on-pithoragarh-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting contest in the offing on Pithoragarh seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting contest in the offing on Pithoragarh seat<\/p>\n<p>B.D.Kasniyal<\/p>\n<p>Pithoragarh, Feb 5<\/p>\n<p>Pithoragarh assembly segment has become the most \u2018hot seat\u2019 in the entire district where a total of seven candidates of various parties will be vying with each other for more than 113000 voters of the Pithoragarh assembly constituency on February 14.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates of Congress, BJP , SP, AAP BSP Azad party and one independent candidate are in fray on the seat but the main contest seems between traditional rivals, Congress and the ruling BJP.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1712\" src=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Chandra-pant-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Chandra-pant-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Chandra-pant.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The seat is represented by Chandra Pant, widow of late state cabinet\u00a0 minister Prakash Pant \u00a0while his long term political rival from Congress\u00a0 Mayukh Mahar is again challenging her.<\/p>\n<p>The election is mainly focussed on three main issues of namely lack of specialized medical facilities, failure of air services to and from the district and lack of civic facilities in the headquarter of the district.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The lack of medical facilities for women are lacking and many women had to lose their lives when being transported to higher centers\u00a0 during child births. There are no facilities of caesarean operations ,\u201d said Bhagwan Singh Rawat,\u00a0 coordinator of Jan Manch an organisation which has been raising the \u00a0voice of common people.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling BJP claims that the base hospital in the district was made functional \u00a0during its regime, and the Auwalaghat lift drinking water scheme was completed\u00a0 fulfilling the drinking water needs of Pithoaragarh and nearby villages .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have complete construction of Base hospital with the cost of over Rs.100 crore and brought water at a cost of Rs. 70 crore. If given chance we will give priority to extend medical facilities to the people by opening a medical college in the district headquter,&#8221; claimed \u00a0Chandra Pant, the sitting BJP MLA, who won the seat in a bye-election following death of her husband Prakash Pant in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1713\" src=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mayukh-Mahar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mayukh-Mahar.jpg 267w, https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mayukh-Mahar-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mayukh Mahar, \u00a0Congress party candidate \u00a0is a former Zila Panchayat chairperson and had become a MLA from the seat in 2012 after defeating late Prakash Pant. According to him the developmental schemes initiated by Congress government from 2012 to 2017 had been shelved by the BJP government that came to power in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; We had sanctioned Base hospital, parking facility, nursing college, stopped transfer of doctors from female hospital to stop deaths of women during child births, sanctioned sports college, increased seats in engineering college by opening new faculties but the BJP government had shelved all these projects resulting in overall desperation amongst people particularly the youth, \u201c said Mayukh Singh Mahar<\/p>\n<p>The Aam Aadmi party (AAP) is trying it\u2019s luck through it&#8217;s candidate Chandra Prakash Punera who is a young political worker and sure to make some dent in vote bank of both BJP and Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; The people are fed up of the rehotrics of BJP and Congress\u00a0 and looking for new alternative and \u201cDelhi Model\u201d shown by AAP has started attracting people,\u201d said Punera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting contest in the offing on Pithoragarh seat B.D.Kasniyal Pithoragarh, Feb 5 Pithoragarh assembly segment has become the most \u2018hot seat\u2019 in the entire district where a total of seven candidates of various parties will be vying with each other for more than 113000 voters of the Pithoragarh assembly constituency on February 14. 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