Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat resigns; BJP Legislature Party meeting to be held tomorrow

Dehradun: Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has resigned from the post in Uttarakhand. He met Governor Baby Rani Maurya and submitted his resignation to her.

The suspense remains on who will be the next CM in the state. After the resignation, Trivendra Singh Rawat said that the party collectively decided that now someone else in the state should be given a chance.

He said that I could never have imagined that I would get an opportunity to work on this post but BJP gave me this opportunity. This can only happen in BJP.

He said that whatever decisions are taken in BJP, they are only after collective deliberations. There will be a meeting of the Legislature at the party office of Dehradun at 10 am.

The name of the new CM will be considered in it. He congratulated the leader who took over the new CM’s chair in the state.

According to sources, the names of MLA Dhan Singh Rawat, Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni and State President Ajay Bhatt are at the forefront of this race.

Since the formation of the Uttarakhand state in the year 2000, no Chief Minister other than Narayan Dutt Tiwari of the Congress has completed his term.

With the BJP mulling a change of leadership in Uttarakhand, state minister Dhan Singh Rawat has emerged as a frontrunner to replace Triverdra Singh Rawat as chief minister. The party may also bring in a deputy chief minister, who will be from the Kumaon region. Pushkar Singh Dhami is likely to be deputy chief minister, the sources added.

The central BJP leadership recently sent two observers, party vice president Raman Singh and general secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam, to the state to get feedback from the party’s core group in the state amid a report of discontent against the chief minister.

A section of state leaders are reportedly miffed with Rawat’s leadership and are of the view that the party’s electoral prospects under him may not be very bright, reported PTI citing sources.

The party may also go for a cabinet reshuffle in the state, sources said.

Rawat was named the chief ministerial candidate by the BJP after it stormed to power in 2017, winning 57 of 70 seats in the state assembly.