NEW DELHI: Ahead of the 2017 Uttarakhand assembly polls, Chief Minister and Congress leader Harish Rawat has been virtually forced to differ with his party’s stand on different national issues due to compulsions of state politics.While he was quick to chair a cabinet meeting for saluting the Army in the wake of surgical strikes , he has recently lost no time in expressing his happiness over the appointment of Bipin Rawat as new army chief.“Main Is appointment se Behad Khush Hun (I am extremely happy with this appointment),” Rawat had summed up his reaction soon after Uttarakhand native Bipin Rawat’s selection as Army Chief. Rawat is apparently aware about his main political rival BJP’s possible plan to use such of Uttarakhand’s natives in high posts for political purposes in the coming assembly polls.Uttarakhand has high population of ex-servicemen and serving servicemen. Under BJP rule at the Centre, Uttarakhand’s three natives- Ajit Doval (NSA), Bipin Rawat (Newly appointed Army Chief) and Anil Dhasmana (newly appointed chief of RAW)- have got covetous posts at national level.What may politically trouble CM Rawat is that all three (Ajit Doval, Bipin Rawat and Anil Dhasmana) are from Garhwal region’s Pauri district.The selection of Bipin Rawat and Anil Dhasmana for the posts of Army Chief and RAW Chief respectively has come soon after the surgical strike recently carried out by the Army across the LOC near Pakistan border. Surgical strike is supposed to have its own political bearings in a state like Uttarakhand where people mostly prefer to serve army.Incidentally, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar had made his first public reaction after the surgical strike during his visit to Uttarakhand .While Rawat has been spending sleepless nights to address at least two to three meetings every day before the announcement of poll dates, BJP has already intensified its campaign against him.