Assembly polls 2022: BJP's Uttarakhand core group meeting begins in Delhi today

New Delhi: Ahead of the Assembly polls, Bharatiya Janata Party's Uttarakhand core group is holding a meeting on Sunday at the party's headquarters in Delhi.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami are also present in the meeting along with the party's National President Jagat Prakash Nadda, State president Madan Kaushik, state election in-charge Pralhad Joshi, election co-in charge RP Singh and others.

In the meeting, 70 assembly seats of Uttarakhand are to be discussed.

Meanwhile, Dhami on Saturday had said that he will contest the upcoming Assembly polls in the state from the Khatima constituency and said that the list of candidates will be announced soon.

The Chief Minister added that they have set a target of winning more than 60 seats out of the 70 seats in the Assembly through a slogan ''Abki Baar 60 Paar'.

In the last Assembly election, BJP secured the win on 57 seats out of 70 Assembly constituencies in Uttarakhand.
Polls to elect the 70-member State Legislative Assembly are scheduled to be held on February 14.

The counting will take place on March 10. (ANI)