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Uttarakhand : Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami Wins Champawat Bypoll ; Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tweets Congratulations

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Uttarakhand’s BJP  Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has won the Champawat bypoll by a margin of 55,025 votes. Leading from the front, Dhami , 46, steered the Bharatiya Janata Party through choppy waters to a mammoth victory in the Uttarakhand assembly election this year.

It may be recalled that in the assembly elections held earlier in Uttarakhand , Pushkar Singh Dhami was defeated in his Khatima constituency by Congress’s Bhuwan Chand Kapri by over 6,000 votes. Hence the Bypoll win was need to stay on as Chief Minister .

Soon after victory announcement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted his congratulations as he wrote, Congratulations to Uttarakhand’s dynamic CM@pushkardhamifor the record win from Champawat. I am confident he will work even harder for the progress of Uttarakhand. I thank the people of Champawat for placing their faith in BJP and laud our Karyakartas for their hardwork.

For the first time in the hill state, the same party came to power for a second term.

 

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