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Uttarakhand Election Results 2017: The rebellion that cost Congress dear

Harish Rawat's political one-upmanship weakened the party; nine MLAs who left won on BJP tickets

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Last Updated : Mar 12 2017 | 1:39 AM IST

If you want to summarise the 2017 Uttarakhand Assembly elections, you can say the ruling Congress has been decimated after last year’s rebellion by party MLAs. And Chief Minister Harish Rawat, who was projected as ‘Bahubali’ in the elections, also fell flat as he lost both the seats, Kitchha and Haridwar Rural, that he contested.

The enormity of BJP’s victory is so huge that it is difficult to say what went wrong with the Congress and what helped BJP to score an unprecedented win. The anti-incumbency factor was so strong against the Rawat government that the Modi wave uprooted the

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