Dehradun, Feb. 19 -- The budget session of the Uttarakhand Assembly is set to begin tomorrow in Dehradun. Former Chief Minister Harish Rawat has questioned the government's intention behind holding the budget session in Dehradun and not in Gairsain. On his social media accounts, Rawat has claimed that Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami does not want anyone to mention the word 'Gairsain' during the budget session. The debate over Gairsain as the capital of Uttarakhand has long been a contentious issue and some years earlier, the then Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat had declared Gairsain as the Summer Capital of Uttarakhand. However, there have been few assembly sessions since then in Gairsain for one or the other reasons.

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