Pushkar Singh Dhami 'played like MS Dhoni' but gave away his own wicket cheaply; will Uttarakhand now get its 3rd CM in a year?

Dhami, who was BJP's second CM replacement in 2021, has lost from his own Khatima constituency.

Dehradun: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has compared Pushkar Singh Dhami to cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Dhami, he said, is a "good finisher".

Dhami was plucked out of obscurity by the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership last July to be made the Uttarakhand chief minister, with just months to go before the party faced the assembly elections.

He also happened to be his party's second CM replacement in 2021, earlier Trivendra Singh Rawat was made to make way for Tirath Singh Rawat.

Dhami seems to have justified the BJP's choice. The ruling party appears set to form the government in Uttarakhand again, the first time in the state's 21-year history that a party will come to power for a second term in a row.

But in his own Khatima constituency, Dhami lost by a margin of about 6,500 votes.