NOBODY’S ENEMY

Pushkar Singh Dhami’s appointment as chief minister marks a generational shift for the BJP in its crisis-ridden hill turf of Uttarakhand. The decision to replace Tirath Singh Rawat, who had spent barely four months at the helm, with the 45-year-old Dhami, a two-term MLA from Khatima in the Kumaon region, comes just eight months before the assembly election and has predictably upset the many factions within the state BJP.

Uttarakhand goes to polls next February and Dhami has no time to effect major changes. His biggest challenge will arguably be to keep factionalism