Uttarakhand’s Congress is going to the voters a year ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections. From June 28 the party will run a statewide outreach campaign against the state government, and it calls this the first phase of its election strategy.
Ten districts are in the opening round, split into four zones. Leaders will go into different Assembly segments and talk to people about what the party calls the government’s failures: weakening education and healthcare, unemployment, corruption, paper leak cases, rising inflation and a worsening law and order situation. The aim is direct contact with ordinary voters and with party workers in the constituencies.
Ganesh Godiyal, the state Congress president, said an opposition party of this size has a responsibility to put the ground reality before the people. His leaders, he said, would carry the alleged failures straight to the public across the state.
Who covers where
Godiyal will lead the first zone himself. It takes in Pithoragarh, Bageshwar and Champawat.
Harak Singh Rawat, chairman of the Election Management Committee, heads the second zone with other senior leaders. That one covers Rudraprayag, Pauri Garhwal and Chamoli. Pritam Singh has the third, made up of Uttarkashi and Tehri. In the fourth, Almora and Nainital, former state Congress president Karan Mahara will lead.
Two bigger names are not tied to a single zone. Former Chief Minister Harish Rawat and Leader of Opposition Yashpal Arya can join the campaign in any of the four. The party intends both men to visit all four zones before it is done.
Congress says it is confident the campaign will expose the government’s alleged shortcomings and build momentum for political change before the 2027 vote.
