Why is BJP wary of projecting Adityanath as a 'star' in UP Assembly polls?

Former bureaucrat AK Sharma's appointment for pandemic management in Varanasi indicates that the top leaders are unhappy with the CM's way of handling the crises

Yogi Adityanath, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister (CM), is expected to shuffle his ministerial council possibly for the last time before the state goes to polls early 2022. While the prospective rejig sparked off the who’s-in-who’s-out speculation in Lucknow, one person evoked inordinate interest, despite not being a hard-core politician. That was AK Sharma, a former bureaucrat who voluntarily retired as the union government’s secretary, micro, small and medium enterprises, in January this year and opted for politics. An officer who had Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi’s ears since Modi’s years in Gandhinagar as the Gujarat chief minister, Sharma was