Summary:
Nautiyal lost by a close margin of 2,328 votes to Congress candidate Shaila Rani, who polled 19,960 votes. They need change for development," she said.Shaila is pitted against Manoj Rawat, who is a journalist turned politician, making his first major political plunge. In 2012, she was the BJP candidate and received 17,632 votes. Recently, he and his organization Mountaineering and Trekking Association were instrumental in helping the state government organize trekking to Kedarnath from nine different routes. "People of Kedarnath assembly are fed up with the Congress and they need change..