Saswat Panigrahi

Of the five states going for polls, Uttarakhand is no less interesting. Though a dozen of political parties are in the poll fray, the big fight, expectedly, will be between the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress.

Uttarakhand has voted out incumbent governments in all the Assembly elections held ever since it was carved out of Uttar Pradesh. Will 2012 see a break in the trend?

Pushed to the wall over allegations of massive corruption under Ramesh Pokhariyal ‘Nishank’, the BJP had to replace him with General BC Khanduri. But, can BJP under Khanduri scrape through despite anti-incumbency? Or will the Congress manage to dislodge BJP?

The key issues on which the election would be fought and the result to be decided will answer these questions.