Virendra Rawat is up against BJP ex-CM Trivendra Singh Rawat, with the BSP candidate expected to further cut into the Congress's Muslim and Dalit votes
Superstition and the hopes for a miracle led to the death of a five-old, terminally-ill boy in Uttarakhand's Haridwar. The boy was suffering from blood cancer, and his parents believed that the river Ganga would cure him.
A widely shared video of the incident, which took place on July 10, purportedly shows the Kanwariyas forcibly pulling the car owner, Pratap Singh, out of the vehicle before overturning the vehicle and hitting it with sticks.