Uttarakhand Chief Minister Triverdra Singh Rawat is expected to tender resignation on Tuesday, as per sources. On Monday, Rawat had met BJP chief JP Nadda.
UPDATED: March 9, 2021 17:37 IST
On March 4, CM Trivendra Singh Rawat presented a Rs 57,400.32 crore budget in the state assembly.
Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned as the chief minister of Uttarakhand on Tuesday, nearly four years after he took the oath. With his resignation, Trivendra Singh Rawat became yet another Uttarakhand chief minister who was unable to complete his full five-year tenure.
In the 20 years since Uttarakhand s formation, Congress stalwart Narayan Datt Tiwari has been the only chief minister
Trivendra Singh Rawat was going to complete four years in office on March 17.
Since 2000, when the state was formed, Uttarakhand has seen eight chief ministers: Nityanand Swami, BS Koshyari, ND Tiwari, Maj Gen (retd) BC Khanduri, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Vijay Bahuguna, Harish Rawat and Trivendra Singh Rawat.
In 20 years, Uttarakhand has had just 1 CM completing his term
In 20 years, Uttarakhand has had just 1 CM completing his term
Uttarakhand has seen eight chief ministers in 20 years of its existence as a separate state. Only one of them has completed five years term. Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned four years after taking oath as Uttarakhand CM.
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BJP leader Trivendra Singh Rawat took oath as the Uttarakhand chief minister in 2017.
Trivendra Singh Rawat became the eighth chief minister of Uttarakhand after the BJP won the 2017 assembly election with 57 MLAs in the 70-member house. Four years down the line, around half of those MLAs have rebelled against Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, and he on Tuesday got his term curtailed.
Names of at least half a dozen leaders, including Dhan Singh Rawat, Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Satpal Maharaj, are doing the rounds to replace Trivendra Singh Rawat, who resigned as the chief minister of Uttarakhand on Tuesday. Though Trivendra Singh Rawat s substitute will be decided at a state legislature party meeting at the BJP headquarters here on Wednesday under the watch of party national vice-president and former Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh, political circles are abuzz with speculations. Sources said state minister Dhan Singh Rawat has emerged as a frontrunner to be the next chief minister. A man known for his polite ways, 48-year-old Dhan Singh, a resident of Paithani village in Pauri district, is said to be close to the outgoing chief minister. Singh became an MLA for the first time in 2017.
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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat addresses a press conference after tendering his resignation formally to Governor Baby Rani Maurya, in Dehradun, Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Photo: PTI
Politics09/Mar/2021
New Delhi: After days of suspense around his continuation in the post following an outburst of anger against him by other Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and legislators in the state, Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned from his post on Tuesday, March 9.