Kedar Singh Rawat is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Rawat is a second time member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Yamunotri constituency in Uttarkashi district.[1][2][3] He has been an MLA from 2007-2012 and has presently won for a second time in 2017 from Yamunotri.
MLA Kedar Singh Rawat | |
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Member of Legislative Assembly for Yamunotri | |
In office 2012–2017 | |
Personal details | |
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party earlier he was in Congress party |
He has been active in political life since college days when he was elected the general secretary from DAV college Dehradun.
He has been a successful lawyer before quitting practice and contesting elections since 2002 when Uttarakhand first went into elections.
Election | Constituency | Party | Result | Votes % | Opposition Candidate | Opposition Party | Opposition vote % | Ref | ||
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2022 | Yamunotri | BJP | Lost | 20.36% | Sanjay Dobhal | Independent | 44.01% | [4] | ||
2017 | Yamunotri | BJP | Won | 41.88% | Sanjay Dobhal | INC | 29.27% | [5] | ||
2012 | Yamunotri | INC | Lost | 30.25% | Pritam Singh Panwar | UKD | 36.15% | [6] | ||
2007 | Yamunotri | INC | Won | 31.37% | Pritam Singh Panwar | UKD | 24.16% | [7] | ||
2002 | Yamunotri | INC | Lost | 19.47% | Pritam Singh Panwar | UKD | 26.37% | [8] |