Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee

Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee or Uttarakhand PCC is the state wing of the Indian National Congress (INC) in Uttarakhand.^[1] It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and campaigns within the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections. The current president of the Uttarakhand PCC is Karan Mahara. The committee has a significant presence in the state's politics and has been in power in the state several times since its formation in 2000.

Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee
President	Karan Mahara
Parliamentary Chairperson	Yashpal Arya (Leader of the Opposition)
Founded	2000
Headquarters	21 Rajpur Road, Dehradun-248001, Uttarakhand
Youth wing	Uttarakhand Youth Congress
Women's wing	Uttarakhand Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee
Ideology	Populism Social liberalism Democratic socialism Social democracy Secularism
Political position	Centre
ECI Status	A State Unit of Indian National Congress
Alliance	Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
Seats in Lok Sabha	0 / 5
Seats in Rajya Sabha	0 / 3
Seats in Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly	20 / 70
Election symbol
Website
uttarakhandpradeshcongress.com
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Structure and composition

S.No.	Name	Designation
1.	Kumari Selja	AICC Incharge Uttarakhand
2.	Karan Mahara	President Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee
3.	Jyoti Rautela	President Uttarakhand Pradesh Mahila Congress
4.	Sumittar Bhullar	President Uttarakhand Pradesh Youth Congress
5.	Vikas Negi	President Uttarakhand Pradesh NSUI

List of presidents

See also: List of state presidents of the Indian National Congress and List of presidents of the Indian National Congress

S.No.	President	Portrait	Term		Ref.
1		Harish Rawat	9 November 2000	October 2007
2		Yashpal Arya	October 2007	12 June 2014	[2]
3		Kishore Upadhyaya	13 June 2014	3 May 2017	[3]
4		Pritam Singh	4 May 2017	22 July 2021	[4]
5		Ganesh Godiyal	22 July 2021	10 April 2022	[5]
6		Karan Mahara	10 April 2022	Incumbent	[6]

List of chief ministers

Main article: List of chief ministers of Uttarakhand

See also: List of chief ministers from the Indian National Congress

S.No.	Portrait	Chief Ministers	Constituency	Term in Office			Assembly (Election)	Ministry	Ref(s)
				Start	End	Tenure
1		Narayan Datt Tiwari	Ramnagar	2 March 2002	7 March 2007	5 years, 5 days	1st Assembly (2002)	Tiwari	[7]
2		Vijay Bahuguna	Sitarganj	13 March 2012	31 January 2014	1 year, 324 days	3rd Assembly (2012)	Bahuguna	[8]
3		Harish Rawat	Dharchula	1 February 2014	27 March 2016	2 years, 55 days		Rawat
				21 April 2016	22 April 2016	1 day
				11 May 2016	18 March 2017	311 days (total 3 years and 2 days)

List of Leaders of Opposition

Main article: List of leaders of the opposition in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly

S.no	Name	Portrait	Term			Assembly (Election)
1	Harak Singh Rawat		13 March 2007	9 March 2012	4 years, 362 days	2nd Assmebly (2007)
2	Indira Hridayesh		27 March 2017	13 June 2021	4 years, 78 days	4th Assembly (2017)
3	Pritam Singh		23 July 2021	11 March 2022	231 days
4	Yashpal Arya		10 April 2022	Incumbent	3 years, 127 days	5th Assembly (2022)

List of AICC Incharges

S.no	Incharge	Portrait	Term
1.	Ch. Birender Singh
2.	Ambika Soni
3.	Anugrah Narayan Singh		2 April 2018	11 September 2020	2 years, 162 days
4.	Devender Yadav		11 September 2020	24 December 2023	3 years, 104 days
5.	Kumari Selja		24 December 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 234 days

Electoral performance

Main article: Elections in Uttarakhand

See also: Electoral history of the Indian National Congress

Legislative Assembly elections

See also: Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly

Year	Legislature	Party leader	Votes polled	Seats won	Change in seats	Outcome
2002	1st Vidhan Sabha	Harish Rawat	769,991	36 / 70	36	Government
2007	2nd Vidhan Sabha		1,116,511	21 / 70	15	Opposition
2012	3rd Vidhan Sabha	Yashpal Arya	1,436,042	32 / 70	11	Government with PDF
2017	4th Vidhan Sabha	Kishore Upadhyaya	1,665,664	11 / 70	21	Opposition
2022	5th Vidhan Sabha	Ganesh Godiyal	2,038,509	19 / 70	8

Lok Sabha elections

See also: Lok Sabha

Year	Legislature	Party leader	Votes polled	Seats won	Change in seats	Outcome
2004	14th Lok Sabha	Harish Rawat	1,024,062	1 / 5	1	Government with UPA
2009	15th Lok Sabha	Yashpal Arya	1,354,468	5 / 5	4
2014	16th Lok Sabha		1,494,440	0 / 5	5	Opposition
2019	17th Lok Sabha	Pritam Singh	1,520,767	0 / 5
2024	18th Lok Sabha	Karan Mahara	1,564,258	0 / 5

List of Union Ministers

Cabinet ministers

No.	Portrait	Minister	Portfolio	Term in Office			Constituency (House)	Prime Minister
				Assumed Office	Left Office	Time in Office
1		Harish Rawat (born 1948)	Minister of Water Resources	28 October 2012	31 January 2014	1 year, 95 days	Haridwar (Lok Sabha)	Manmohan Singh

Minister of State (MoS)

No.	Portrait	Minister	Portfolio	Term in Office			Constituency (House)	Prime Minister
				Assumed Office	Left Office	Time in Office
1		Harish Rawat (born 1948)	Minister of State of Labour and Employment	28 May 2009	19 January 2011	1 year, 236 days	Haridwar (Lok Sabha)	Manmohan Singh
			Minister of Agriculture and Food Processing Industries	19 January 2011	28 October 2012	1 year, 283 days
			Minister of State of Parliamentary Affairs	12 July 2011	28 October 2012	1 year, 108 days

See also

• Indian National Congress
• Congress Working Committee
• All India Congress Committee
• Pradesh Congress Committee
• Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttarakhand
• Uttarakhand Kranti Dal