Dehradun, March 14 -- It isn't as though the Congress has raked the bottom of the barrel to come up with its first three Uttarakhand candidates for the Lok Sabha contest. This is the general impression being given after the announcement of Jot Singh Gunsola, Ganesh Godiyal and Pradeep Tamta as the respective candidates from the Tehri, Pauri and Almora constituencies. At the same time, it is true that there were leaders with higher profiles who reportedly ducked out of the contest believing that certain humiliation awaited them. On the other hand, if those in the fray now even put up a reasonably good fight, they will be considered to have done a good job.
The BJP will have to be careful these underdogs do not evoke too much of a 'sympathy'...