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Vibha Sharma
New Delhi, July 4
Pushkar Singh Dhami took oath as the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand in Dehradun today, becoming the third BJP leader to hold the post in the past four months and 11th since it attained statehood in November 2000. Dhami was administered the oath of office along with 11 ministers by Governor Baby Rani Maurya, two days after Garhwal MP Tirath Singh Rawat resigned from the post to avoid a “constitutional crisis” in the hill state.
The ministers include Satpal Maharaj, Harak Singh Rawat, Banshidhar Bhagat, Yashpal Arya, Bishan Singh Chuphal, Subodh Uniyal, Arvind Pandey, Ganesh Joshi, Dhan Singh Rawat, Rekha Arya and Yatishwaranand.