The BJP, expecting a comeback in Uttarakhand, received a major jolt when chief minister BC Khanduri, who was brought back to office after a gap, lost from Kotdwar by more than 4,000 votes. Khanduri was earlier removed when the BJP lost all the five seats in Uttarakhand in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections.

Lal Chand Sharma, 52, a senior Congress leader from Dehradun, was surfing TV channels at the party office on Tuesday morning. Like hundreds of party workers, he was expecting a landslide victory.

Who will form the government in Uttarakhand is as hazy as it is clear in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, Anupam Trivedi reports. Decisive factors | Celebration, missing, only calculation | Khanduri lost to internal politics, outsider plank

Congress tonight appeared on course to form government in Uttarakhand after it took a wafer-thin one seat advantage over ruling BJP in a cliff-hanger of a contest in state assembly polls. BJP fares poorly in UP, Khanduri loses in Uttarakhand

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition Congress today were locked in a nail-biting seesaw battle as Uttarakhand appeared poised for a hung assembly amid no clear winner in the 70-member house.

The results would decide the fate of Khanduri who is locked in a tussle against Surendra Singh Negi. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and several ministers are also facing stiff competition in different constituencies.

Former chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' was forced to leave the polling booth at Balawala area of his assembly constituency on Monday.

Polling pattern in the state capital surprised not only the presiding officers but also voters. While areas having mixed population recorded long queues much before polling time, posh areas recorded noticeable polling only after 11am. Here's a comparative analysis of both the regions.

Is Uttarakhand that went to polls on Monday headed for a hung Assembly? The race seemed narrow in the hills and plains of the newly-carved state — the Congress reviving its thrust in the campaign’s dying moments, the BJP desperately fixing internal dissensions and sabotage. Vinod Sharma writes.

Polling for the assembly elections in Uttarakhand to elect 70 legislators began a dull note this morning despite a clear sky.

BJP President Nitin Gadkari says the Assembly elections in five states were a semi-final ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Chunav to bandh mutthi ki tarah hote hain, Janaab; jab khulegi tab pata chalega, iske bheetar kya hai (You can't say who will win in election until results are out). Deep Joshi reports.

Congress candidate Yashpal Arya is sitting pretty in the newly reserved Bajpur assembly constituency that falls between Gadarpur and Ramnagar constituencies. Prithviraj Singh reports.

Communist Party of India (CPI) national secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan has accused both the BJP and the Congress of looting the state in the last 12 years.