It’s ‘Assam model’ for BJP in Uttarakhand

It’s looking at going into polls next year on the basis of collective leadership rather than the face of new CM

The BJP’s uncharacteristic move to change the chief minister with less than a year to go for polls in Uttarakhand surprised many when it happened, but a couple of months down the line, the party is looking at going into the polls next year on the basis of collective leadership rather than the face of the new chief minister. Party leaders are calling this collective leadership pattern the “Assam Model” of going into polls with no guarantees that the sitting chief minister would be repeated, referring to the replacement of Sarbananda Sonowal with Himanta Biswa Sarma after the polls were done. Tirath Singh Rawat replaced Trivendra Singh Rawat in Uttarakhand as chief minister after the latter managed to alienate party MLAs, leaders, workers and also the Vishwa Hindu Parishad that threatened him with an agitation if he did not announce the withdrawal of the Devasthanam Act of 2019 that sought to regulate the working of a large number of Hindu shrines, including Badrinath and Kedarnath temples.