Voting for Uttarakhand assembly has started today. It is expected to be another close contest between the BJP and the Congress. In 2012, 37 assembly seats had a margin of less than 5000 votes. The Congress had defeated the BJP by one seat in the previous election and formed the government with the help of independent MLAs.
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