Uttarakhand Assembly Elections 2017: BSP names 50 candidates

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), led by Mayawati, released a list of 50 candidates on Saturday for the forthcoming Uttarakhand assembly election, alongside its campaign in Uttar Pradesh. The party has said a second list of 20 names will follow.

Going it alone

The BSP had already declared that it would fight the Uttarakhand election without allies. It has taken the same line in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, with Mayawati saying the decision was meant to protect the interests of the Bahujan movement. In the 2012 state election the party won three seats in Uttarakhand.

The first list

Candidates and the seats they will contest:

• Raj Bahadur Singh (Yamunotri)
• Mukesh Lal Koshwal (Badrinath)
• Mohan Lal Katyal (Tharali)
• Sujit Lal Tamta (Rudraprayag)
• Pingle Das (Ghansali)
• Gauri Shankar Sharma (Devprayag)
• Kanak Pal (Pratapnagar)
• Dinesh Kohli (Dhanaulti)
• Daulat Kunwar (Chakrata)
• Girish Kumar (Vikasnagar)
• Haji Salim (Dharampur)
• Hari Singh Khorwal (Raipur)
• Jagram Singh (Raipur Road)
• Devendra Saini (Dehradun Cantt)
• Ashok Pawar (Mussoorie)
• Haji Abdul Hamid (Doiwala)
• Lallan Rajbhar (Rishikesh)
• Anju Mittal (Haridwar)
• Prashant Rai (BHEL Ranipur)
• Mulki Raj (Jwalapur)
• Ramkumar Rana (Bhagwanpur)
• Bhagmal (Jhabrera)
• Haji Rao Sajid (Piran Kaliyar)
• Dr Ram Subhgan Saini (Roorkee)
• Mufti Riyasat (Khanpur)
• Sharbat Karim (Manglaur)
• Subhash Choudhary (Laksar)
• Mukarram Ansari (Haridwar Rural)
• Om Prakash Tamta (Kapkot)
• Basant Kumar (Bageshwar)
• Girish Choudhary (Dwarahat)
• Bhole Shankar Arya (Salt)
• Krapal Singh Arya (Ranikhet)
• Himanshu Kohli (Someshwar)
• Dr Sanjay Kumar Tamta (Almora)
• Taradatt Pandey (Jageshwar)
• Devi Lal Sharma (Lohaghat)
• Dinesh Chandra (Champawat)
• Rajeev Mohan (Lalkuan)
• Taradatt Pandey (Bhimtal)
• Shakeel Ahmed (Haldwani)
• Varun Pratap Singh (Kaladhungi)
• Rajeev Aggarwal (Ramnagar)
• Umar Siddiqui (Jaspur)
• Ashraf Siddiqui (Kashipur)
• Jaswant Chauhan (Rudrapur)
• Rajesh Pratap Singh (Kichha)
• Navtel Pal (Sitarganj)
• Shashiram Rana (Nanakmatta)
• Ramesh Rana (Khatima)

Taradatt Pandey appears against both Jageshwar and Bhimtal in the list as released.

What happened next

In the 2017 Uttarakhand assembly election the BJP won 57 seats and the Congress 11. Trivendra Singh Rawat became Chief Minister after the result.

See also: Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha members

Originally published on 16 January 2017. Rewritten on 9 October 2026.

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