The Uttarakhand BJP, beset with widespread protests over withering fresh claims in the 2022 receptionist murder case and large-scale defections to the Congress, is looking to the talismanic intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to keep the flock together. Modi is scheduled to interact with 30,000 party workers during his visit to the hillstate on April 14 and inaugurate the Dehradun-New Delhi Expressway. They said they would work to bring the Congress back to power in the larger interest of the state. The Congress is also raising the issue of the mysterious "VIP" linked to the murder of the receptionist in Rishikesh in September 2022. A BJP leader said: “We don’t have a conclusive reply against the allegations except saying that the Congress has fabricated the whole thing.

Source: The Telegraph April 10, 2026 01:38 UTC