Rift within

Rifts in the Himachal Pradesh unit of the BJP are thriving. Firebrand leader and MLA from Nurpur, Rakesh Pathania, took his government to task for its lack of supervision of cancer wards in the state hospitals: so much so that the CM had to come to the health minister’s defence. Some months ago, Pathania was invited to a function for farmers where the CM was present but he left midway fuming that he could not take the humiliation of being ignored. He was not invited on the stage.