Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The BJP s gamble in Uttarakhand on Pushkar Singh Dhami worked. Just months before the assembly polls, the party installed him as the chief minister, replacing Tirath Singh Rawat. And in February, the BJP won a second successive term in the state known for booting out the party in power in every time. India News | Uttarakhand 2022: BJP Returns to Power, Disasters Take Their Toll, Ecological Concerns Abound.
Allegations of corruption and slow pace of development work from within the party fold come as the government is on the back foot over multiple recruitment scams and the Ankita Bhandari murder case.
Breaking the trend of no incumbent regaining power after five years, the BJP formed its government in Uttarakhand early this year but its decision to appoint Pushkar Singh Dhami as the Chief Minister despite his defeat in the polls has not gone .
Recent remarks by two former chief ministers made BJP leaders ill at ease as they showed things in BJP -governed state in a bad light, sources told news agency PTI