Denial of tickets has left powerful contenders in the BJP seething with discontent with several of them either preparing to cross over to other parties or enter the poll arena as independents.
Not even a week following his removal from the BJP, Uttarakhand minister Harak Singh Rawat returned to the Congress almost six years after his departure. Rawat, who was removed from the saffron party over alleged indiscipline, joined the Congress along with his daughter-in-law Anukriti Gusain on Friday, in the presence of Congress leader Harish Rawat, who had initially opposed