 "PM Narendra Modi with CM Trivendra Singh Rawat. The Congress in its campaign in the state is attacking the PM over the issues of demonetisation and GST Photo: PTI")
Three seats — Tehri, Pauri and Haridwar, all in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand — had been voting for the BJP since 1991, the era when the Ram lehar stormed the Congress bastion in the hills. But in 2009, something unexpected happened. All the five seats in the state went to the Congress.
Five years later, the BJP, however, reclaimed its supremacy, wresting all the five seats. In the 2017 assembly elections, the BJP’s performance was the best. It got a brute majority in the House by winning 57 assembly seats.
And now, Congress leaders say the charisma of Prime
