According to the officials, so far, a total of 26 bodies have been airlifted from Droupadi’s Danda II mountain peak which was hit by a huge avalanche Uttarkashi: Five more bodies were airlifted to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) camp in Uttarkashi’s Matli on Monday. According to the officials, so... The post appeared first on .

According to the officials, so far, a total of 26 bodies have been airlifted from Droupadi’s Danda II mountain peak which was hit by a huge avalanche Uttarkashi: Five more bodies were airlifted to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) camp in Uttarkashi’s Matli on Monday. According to the officials, so... The post appeared first on .

Dehradun Nov 18 PTI The Aam Aadmi Partys chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming Uttarakhand Assembly polls Colonel Ajay Kothiyal retd will contest from the Gangotri seat in Uttarkashi district party leader Manish Sisodia saidMaking the announcement in Uttarkashi on Wednesday Sisodia the deputy chief minister of Delhi claimed that an era of clean politics in Uttarakhand will usher in from Gangotri the place where the holy Ganga river originates Addressing a public meeting in Gangotri he canvassed for Kothiyal and accused the successive Congress and BJP governments in the state of not keeping the promises they made to the peopleThough Kothiyal comes from a non-political background he is quite popular in the area He had used his military experience to help the locals deal with the aftermath of the 2013 Kedarnath tragedy He has been a principal of the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering in UttarkashiAccording to political observers the decision to field Kothiyal from the seat has been prompted by the discontent among the priests in the Chardham towns including Gangotri against the ruling BJP over the Chardham Devasthanam BoardConstituted during Trivendra Singh Rawats chief ministership Devasthanam Board controls the affairs of 51 temples including the Chardham in UttarakhandThe priests of Kedarnath Badrinath Gangotri and Yamunotri have been demanding the boards dissolution saying it is an infringement on their traditional rights over the templesThe electoral history of Gangotri shows that the party which wins this seat forms government in the state PTI ALM NSD NSD