dehradun recently bjp state chief ajay bhatt and chief minister trivendra singh rawat had been involved in a verbal tussle over the hosting of the winter session of the assembly with other senior party leaders also divided over the issue the two bjp stalwarts were also perceived to be at loggerheads over distribution of key portfolios in the governmenthowever this is not the first time that the head of a ruling party and its cm have locked horns in the stateearlier former cm nd tiwari had sour relations with the then state congress chief harish rawat and when rawat became the cm he had an uneasy relationship with yashpal arya who was the pradesh congress committee pcc chief arya was later replaced by kishore upadhyay who was initially regarded as a member of the harish rawat camp the good relations however did not last long as the two seniors had different opinions on several issues such as one familyone ticket formulacommenting on this trend analyst udit ghildiyal told toi the most marked clashes between party and government happened during the congress tenure when harish rawat was the state party chief and a front runner for the cms post as he was heading the entire poll campaign however the central congress leadership decided to give the key position to tiwari as a result there were repeated clashes between the ruling party and the government for instance tiwari gave key portfolios to over 300 party leaders and this did not go down well with rawat who vehemently opposed it elaborating on the reasons why clashes happen between the government and the ruling party political commentator jay singh rawat said it is a small state and each cm brings with him his own kitchen cabinet comprising of people close to him these people are usually more powerful than the ministers who often feel ignored in this case the results of civic body polls have brought out the differences between bhatt and rawat to the fore bjp candidates have lost seats where heavyweights such as bhatt rawat and madan kaushik had campaigned now no one wants to take the blame for the defeat and they are locking horns over other issues