Voting for the Uttarakhand Assembly elections has begun on Monday morning, wherein over 82 lakh voters in 70 assembly constituencies will decide the political fate of 632 candidates which include over 150 independents.Voters can exercise their franchise till 6 pm.Meanwhile a total of 11,697 booths have been set up for voting, out of these, 776 booths are critical and 1050 booths are vulnerable.Prominent candidates of BJP in fray are Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, his cabinet colleagues Dhan Singh Rawat, Satpal Maharaj, Yatishwarananda, Subodh Uniyal, Ganesh Joshi, Rekha Arya and state BJP president Madan Kaushik. Former Uttarakhand Congress president Kishore Upadhyay is trying his luck this time on BJP ticket.
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