Himalayauk himalaya Gaurav Uttarakhand
Mussoorie’s politics is as twisted and winding as the road leading to the hill town. Little surprise that Godavari Thapli, the Congress candidate from Mussoorie constituency, who was denied the ticket in the 2012 assembly elections, has finally got it this year. Thapli is the first ever Gorkha candidate from the Congress here and will take on the BJP’s sitting MLA Ganesh Joshi.
Thapli seems to have happily buried her differences with the ruling party’s senior leader Jot Singh Gunsola, who she has often openly criticised. During her campaign in the previous election, when she fought as an Independent candidate, Thapli had even declared that it was a straight contest between her and the BJP candidate, because then sitting MLA Gunsola had been “rejected by the people” for ignoring the development of the area.
