The state leadership has sidelined Dushyant Gautam to the extent that his picture and name were not allowed on posters and hoardings put up by party workers across the town and along roads
Mahendra Bhatt on Tuesday became Uttarakhand BJP president for the second consecutive time after the party's state provincial council formalised his name.
The party began its much-awaited internal election process on Monday. Bhatt, who is also a Rajya Sabha member, was the only candidate to file his nomination within the stipulated time frame set by the election officials.
