The BJP's choice of repeating Pushkar Singh Dhami as Chief Minister of Uttarakhand despite him losing his own seat, Khatima, in the recent Assembly polls is a nod to the fact that he brought in, in his short tenure before polls were called, some stability in the notoriously fractious State unit of the BJP and was at the helm when the party broke the history of alternation in the State.
Mr Dhami, 46, is a new batch of leadership that came up, in his case, in rather dire circumstances for the party, after the State saw three Chief Ministers in a single year in 2021 - Trivendra Singh Rawat, Tirath Singh Rawat and Mr. Dhami himself - so close to the polls.
