Lt General to the BJP's rescue

Lt Gen B C Khanduri might not know that much about politics, but he does know his real job: building roads (he’s a sapper). Impressed by his performance as Union minister for surface transport through the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government – where he built his career on building road and built so many of them that the Golden Quadrilateral became the centrepiece of that government’s achievements – the BJP thought he would be the best candidate for chief minister of Uttarakhand. Accordingly, he was dispatched to the state as CM in 2007.

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