A keen fight between BJP and Congress looms large in the coming 2017 assembly election to Kichha. In 2014 parliamentary general elections, the BJP candidate from Nainital- Udhamsingh Nagar Lok Sabha seat, Bhagat Singh Koshyari, had established a lead of 14714 votes over his nearest Congress rival K.C.Singh Baba in the Kichha assembly segment.