The Lok Sabha MP from Garhwal, Tirath Singh Rawat has been elected as the leader of the BJP Legislature Party paving the way for Rawat to take over as a Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, a day after Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned from the top post.
Tirath Singh Rawat will take oath as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand at 4 pm on March 10, 2021. The news of the new CM of the state was announced by Trivendra Singh Rawat after the meeting of the BJP legislature party.
The Choice of electing Tirath Singh Rawat as the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand has also come as a surprise for many as he was not among the favourites. The other names that were doing the round for the top post were Ajay Bhatt, Dhan Singh Rawat, and Anil Baluni.
Uttarakhand: BJP leader Tirath Singh Rawat meets Governor Baby Rani Maurya in Dehradun.
He will take oath as the chief minister later today. https://t.co/sjdVidD3DM pic.twitter.com/ZXQ5g6rqpD
— ANI (@ANI) March 10, 2021
Tirath Singh Rawat extends gratitude:
After being elected as the Chief Minister-designate of Uttarakhand, Rawat extended his gratitude to PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and BJP Chief JP Nadda for trusting him with the responsibility as he is a mere party worker who comes from a small village.
Tirath Singh Rawat further added that he had never imagined that he would reach here and that he will make all the efforts to meet people's expectations and will take forward the work done in the last 4 years.
About Tirath Singh Rawat:
• From 2013 to 2015, Tirath Singh Rawat was the party chief of BJP Uttarakhand. Currently, he is a national secretary of the BJP.
• From 2012 to 2017, Tirath Singh Rawat was an MLA from the Chaubattakhal constituency.
• He also held the post of the first education minister of the newly formed Uttarakhand. In 2007, he was elected as the state general secretary of the state.
• Among other prestigious positions, Tirath Singh Rawat has been a Chief Electoral Officer of Uttarakhand as well as state membership chief.
• Rawat had earlier served as the state vice president of Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha.
Political crisis in Uttarakhand: |
| Trivendra Singh Rawat had submitted his resignation to Governor Baby Rani Maurya at Raj Bhavan on March 9, 2021, a year before the state is scheduled to go to the polls. There have been complaints from various Uttarakhand BJP MLAs over Rawat’s style of governance. His resignation had come after the former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Dr. Raman Singh and BJP General Secretary in-charge of Uttarakhand Dushyant Kumar Gautam had submitted a report to the central leadership of BJP explaining the rebellion against Rawat in the state unit of the party. BJP had swept the elections in Uttarakhand in 2017 by winning 57 seats in the 70 member Uttarakhand Assembly. On the other hand, Congress had won just 11 seats. |
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