Dehradun Uttarakhand India January 27 ANI Hours after expelled Congress leader Kishore Upadhyay joined the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP on Thursday, senior Congress leader and former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat said he is sad to see the former's downfall.
Rawat told the ANI that he was sad. I am hurt to see such a downfall of him. The former Uttarakhand Congress Chief Kishore Upadhyay joined the BJP today in Dehradun after he was expelled by Congress on Wednesday for anti-party activities. Speaking on the change in the constituency from where he will contest the Uttarakhand elections, Rawat said it was his duty to consider the party's command supreme. I have carried out my duty. Rawat will contest the assembly polls from Lalkuwa instead of Ramnagar. The Congress released its third list of candidates on Wednesday, in which the party has changed the seat of Harish Singh Rawat and four other leaders.
One of the working presidents of Uttarakhand Congress Ranjeet Rawat was uncomfortable with the candidature of Harish Rawat from Ramnagar Assembly Constituency after the crisis within the party due to infighting among the leaders.
Congress has given the ticket to the daughter of Harish Rawat, Anupama Rawat of Hardwar Rural constituency defying its own policy of '' one seat, one family.