Amid growing troubles for the Pushkar Singh Dhami-led Uttarakhand government, with the recruitment scam and arrest of Pulkit Arya, son of BJP leader Vinod Arya in the Ankita Bhandari murder case, BJP general secretary (organisation) B.L. Santhosh reached Dehradun on Friday.
Mr. Santhosh's visit comes after several Uttarakhand BJP leaders, including Pushkar Singh Dhami, made the rounds of Delhi holding meetings with senior national leaders over the plunging popularity of the party's government in Uttarakhand. While the reason for Mr. Santhosh's visit is being touted as a routine attendance of a function by the party's Kisan Morcha (farmers cell), he was closeted for almost four hours with BJP Uttarakhand leaders (with a noticeable absentee being Mr. Dhami) and spoke on issues related to party discipline.
The BJP's central leadership has been worried over the situation in Uttarakhand where it was re-elected against much odds in the recently concluded Assembly polls. Mr. Dhami, followed by state Uttarakhand chief Mahendra Bhatt were called to Delhi, followed by senior ministers Dhan Singh Rawat and Satpal Maharaj and senior leader Munna Singh Rawat.
