Saket Bahuguna

President Pranab Mukherjee's intervention was formally sought this evening in the political crisis in Uttarakhand, with leaders of the Congress government and the opposition BJP separately pitching to run the hill state.

Amid tight security, polling began on Wednesday for the high-profile Tehri Lok Sabha seat in Uttarakhand where Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna's son and Congress nominee Saket Bahuguna is taking on BJP's Mala Raj Laxmi Shah, a member of the erstwhile Tehri royal family.

President Pranab Mukherjee's intervention was formally sought this evening in the political crisis in Uttarakhand, with leaders of the Congress government and the opposition BJP separately pitching to run the hill state.

Amid tight security, polling began on Wednesday for the high-profile Tehri Lok Sabha seat in Uttarakhand where Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna's son and Congress nominee Saket Bahuguna is taking on BJP's Mala Raj Laxmi Shah, a member of the erstwhile Tehri royal family.