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Direct contest in Doon AC, Road & Water basic issue

The BJP sitting MLA  Paramjeet Singh Pami is facing a direct contest in the industrial hub Doon assembly constituency of Solan district people of industrial belts and hills are showing a strong response to the Congress candidates Ram Kumar Chaudhary who was a member of Assembly from 2012-2017.In 2017  BJP candidate Param Jeet Singh Pammi won this seat. Pammi and Ram Kumar are in the fray this time too. It might be tough to fight this time too between both candidates. A large part of the Industrial belt of Baddi – Barotiwala and Nalagarh lies in the Doon constituency. former congress lead. late Lajja Ram had a strong grip on the people of this constituency and from 1990 to 2007 he represented this constituency. He was considered a powerful and active rival member of former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh’s camp in the state Congress. It was only in the 2007 Vidhan Sabha elections that BJP first time won this seat. BJP candidate Vinod Kumari Chandal made won this seat but in the 2012 assembly poll, she lost to congress Candidate Ram Kumar son of former Congress leader Lajja Ram. The worst things which may affect the ruling saffron candidates is public disconnect. One of the largest villages the AC Patta , where residents informed that it is barely before the assembly to take place then sitting MLA not visited their village. He was not visible in the rural areas for last five years. They complained that he always tried to keep his distance form them and some time when people tried to make call to him he not available.. The basic issue in the rural area is road and drinking and irrigation water schemes as the existing schemes are insufficient to meet out the increased water demands. Modi Gupta resident Patta lamented that youths who remained in dire need to issue the certificates and DO notes to get jobs in the Private industries BJP MLA could not do so moreover the management in the industry hardly bothered to obelized his additional efforts to make calls to them. The profile of the Doon constituency having number Male voters-37165 and Female 33976 and 3rd gender -2. There are total 71141 voters. The Constituency is divided in urban and rural areas. The urban voters are less because there are most of migrant labour and other industrial workers belonged to other state and district of Himachal. In the rural areas there are big villages like ,Chandi, Gharsi, Patta and Sandoli which constitute the major chunk of electoral. Congress have strong hold in the rural areas where as the BJP rely upon the urban votes.

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