Sainik Samaj Party chief Balbeer Singh Parmar announces the party candidates on Thursday. Tribune photo: Abhyudaya Kotnala

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, January 12

The Sainik Samaj Party in Uttarakhand today announced candidates for the seven Assembly seats. It said more candidates would be declared shortly.Announcing the candidates, Sainik Samaj Party president Lt Col Balbir Singh Parmar (retd) said dedicated party men had been given tickets and he was very hopeful that they would emerge victorious in the poll battle.He said Om Prakash Panwar would be the party candidate from the Luxor Assembly seat. He said Shiv Kumar would be contesting from the Yamunotri Assembly seat and Sita Ram Rankoti would be the party candidate from the Deoprayag Assembly seat.Further, Usha Negi will be contesting from the Narendranagar Assembly segment and Surya Prakash Lodhi will contest from the Doiwala Assembly seat.Pallavi Kukreti has been given the party ticket from the Khanpur Assembly seat and Narayan Thapa will be contesting from the Sahaspur Assembly seat.Lt Col Parmar said the time had come for ex-servicemen to take head on the BJP and the Congress in the state. He said the people of Uttarakhand were fed up with both the BJP and the Congress as both these parties were neck deep in corruption and clean governance was the need of the hour. He said the Sainik Samaj Party was of the firm opinion that the issue of permanent capital for Uttarakhand should be addressed for one and all. He said the Panchayati Raj arrangements must be strengthened in order to empower rural areas of the state.