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Anand Vardhan

New crop of state leaders, institutional reset, social calculus: Why BJP picked new CMs

This week, the long wait for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s chief ministerial picks for Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh was over with the party making unforeseen choices even by its own scale. The BJP leadership has been known to make such unconventional moves in recent years.

Putting to rest a range of speculations, the BJP steered clear of obvious choices, opting for relatively less known names as chief ministers, and their two deputies in each of the three states in which the party had recorded convincing wins in the recently concluded assembly elections. 

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