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Photograph by PTI Puneet Nicholas Yadav July 07, 2021 00:00 IST In Uttarakhand Musical Chairs, Pushkar Singh Dhami Is The New Player outlookindia.com 2021-07-09T15:55:11+05:30 BJP-ruled Uttarakhand witnessed swift power play last week the hill state’s third in four months. Tirath Singh Rawat, sworn in as CM in March after the BJP sacked predecessor Trivendra Singh Rawat, put in his papers, making way for two-term MLA Pushkar Singh Dhami to take over months before the state votes a new assembly. Tirath’s resignation was necessary to avert a constitutional crisis. A Lok Sabha MP when he was named CM, Tirath had to be elected as an MLA within six months. He said he resigned as his election “would not be possible” because the current assembly’s tenure expires on March 23, 2022 according to the Representation of the People Act, 1951, bypolls cannot be held if an assembly’s remaining term is “less than one ye ....