New Delhi, Nov. 21: With a little over two years to go before the Assembly elections, the Uttaranchal Congress felt it was time the high command effected a mid-course correction to salvage its waning prospects.
As speculation continued whether chief minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari would stay or be “honourably retired” with a governor’s job, the growing feeling in the state Congress was his successor should be someone who was an “integral part of the movement for a separate hill state” and not merely a nominee of Delhi. [more]