BJP's Dhami versus Cong's Rawat: A tough battle on cards in Uttarakhand

Barely six months after becoming Uttarakhand's youngest Chief Minister in July last year, Pushkar Singh Dhami finds himself facing the onerous task of piloting the BJP to a second consecutive victory in the state Assembly polls against a redoubtable opponent like Harish Rawat who leads the Congress's do-or-die comeback battle.

In the 2017 Assembly polls, the BJP had won 57 out of the 70 Assembly seats in the state, restricting the Congress to just 11.