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However, this list as well as the recent joining of some party members has further exposed the BJP before the people,” said Upadhyay.Congress state spokesperson Mathura Dutt Joshi said that “athough BJP has been successful in wooing a handful of Congress members, but it will fail in the elections like it failed in the efforts to topple a democractically-elected government.” He added that the situation in BJP was “so critical that Congress members joining the party in the morning were being declared as candidates in the evening.” “When they could not pull down the democratically elected Congress government in Uttarakhand, they are wooing our leaders by offering ticket to them and their families,” he said, adding that it clearly shows that the BJP did not have even 70 candidates to face Congress.“This is a clear attempt to win elections either by hook or by crook. DEHRADUN: In a vehement attack on the BJP after the party announced its candidate list on Monday, the Congress said giving tickets to 14 rebels in a list of 64 reflected that the party “did not have either a poll agenda or the candidates.” The Congress top brass of Uttarakhand claimed that the opposition party in the state was “completely dependent on the rebels to win the state.”Chief minister Harish Rawat used the term “udhaar ka sindoor” (borrowed vermillion) to define the BJP’s move to field rebels to counter the Congress in elections.Congress state chief Kishore Upadhyay stated that the BJP list has justified the allegations being made by the Congress in the last few months..