BJP leader Tirath Singh Rawat resigned as Uttarakhand chief minister on Friday after holding the post for less than four months.
Rawat handed over the resignation letter to governor Baby Rani Maurya past 11pm, hours after returning from Delhi where he was summoned by the top BJP leadership on Wednesday.
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At 9.30pm, Rawat had told a news conference in Dehradun: “As the chief minister, I worked to control the second wave of Covid-19 and provided financial relief to people. I also extended relief to the tourism industry, which was hard hit during the pandemic.”
However, he had not responded to any questions about his resignation.
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Normally, he could have entered the assembly after winning a bypoll. However, assembly elections are expected to be held early next year, and former Congress minister Nav Prabhat recently cited provisions of the Representation of People Act to say that a bypoll cannot be held if elections are scheduled within a year. Nav Prabhat claimed that this would leave BJP no choice but to change the state’s CM again before the assembly polls.Rawat was in Ramnagar till Tuesday to attend the party’s ‘Chintan Shivir’, a three-day brainstorming session for the upcoming assembly polls, and had just returned to Dehradun when he got the call. He cancelled his appointments for the day and left for the national capital.