BJP CMs | Betting on fresh faces

Over the past two decades, power in several states had congealed around entrenched satraps, often stifling the rise of new leaders and hardening factional lines within the BJP. It is to arrest this drift that the Modi–Shah leadership has undertaken a nuanced experiment in political and social engineering—steadily dismantling the era of towering regional strongmen and replacing them with younger, more diverse chief ministers valued less for mass charisma than for organisational discipline, administrative reliability and fidelity to the central command.