Uttarakhand has now become a political arena of turncoats: Here's why?

On October 11, Yashpal Arya returned to the Congress from BJP. By re-inducting Arya, the Congress is wooing the 18 per cent Dalit vote in the state

Just a month before the 2017 Assembly elections in Uttarakhand, then irrigation minister Yashpal Arya, a prom­inent Dalit face in the Congress, had joined the BJP. Arya’s entry into the BJP had dealt a big blow to the Congress, then the ruling party in the state, already reeling from the shock of the desertion by 10 MLAs, who too had joined the BJP a year earlier. In the elections, the Congress was reduced to a paltry 11 in the 70-member House as it faced the biggest humiliating defeat in the hill state. And the BJP won with a brute majority