Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat said on 17 January that the BJP's first list of candidates for the state "promotes dynastic politics". He said that the list includes defectors against whom the saffron party had previously levelled corruption charges against.
Rawat said he was surprised to note that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stern public posturing against dynastic politics had conveniently been ignored by his own party.
"The Prime Minister advises partymen to stay away from promoting dynastic politics whereas his own party's list of candidates for Uttarakhand seems to promote the malaise," Rawat told reporters in Dehradun.