The Bhartiya Janta Party's Uttrakhand state assembly election in-charge and Union Minister Jagat Parkash Nadda has claimed that the party has edge over congress in the state assembly elections and would get more than two third majority in the 70 member assembly.<br/><br/>Addressing a press conference in Dehradun today, he said that party is fighting this election as development versus corruption. He said that it has clear that congress leaders are going into this election as a defeated mentality. More over the party has not found its own candidates to field in the election fray, Mr. Nadda further added.<br/><br/> Mr. Nadda said that it was the then Vajpayee-led NDA government in centre which provided the statehood status to Uttrakhand, while the congress party opposed the decision in this regard. He promised that BJP government would develop this state, as its government did earlier in the past.
News On AIR | January 23, 2017 6:34 PM
BJP has edge over congress in Uttrakhand assembly elections: Nadda