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Pushkar Singh Dhami: Uttarakhand gets new CM, but old challenges remain

While Uttarakhand struggles to manage the Covid-19 outbreak with a decrepit health infrastructure, BJP's choice of chief minister is a novice in government work

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Pushkar Singh Dhami (right), 45, takes oath as Uttarakhand’s youngest chief minister, in Dehradun on Sunday. He has been MLA only once before and never a minister | PHOTO: PTI

Aditi Phadnis New Delhi
It was out with the old and in with the new — and then freshly minted!

While Uttarakhand struggles to manage the Covid-19 outbreak with a decrepit health infrastructure, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s choice of chief minister is a novice in government work. The newest Uttarakhand CM, Pushkar Singh Dhami (45), has been MLA only once before and never a minister. But he has a powerful backer in former chief minister and now outspoken Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, a long-time swayamsevak.

Dhami’s work in the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) and his campaigns to organise youth in Uttarakhand