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DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday distributed portfolios among his cabinet colleagues while keeping 15 departments, including key departments of home, finance, revenue, civil aviation, planning, mining and general administration with himself. Meanwhile, after four years of the present BJP dispensation, the state got a dedicated health minister with the charge of the health department on Tuesday being given to Dhan Singh Rawat.
In the earlier dispensations of Trivendra Rawat and Tirath Rawat, the health department was with the CM. However, unlike his predecessors, Dhami has allotted key departments like health, power, excise and PWD to his colleagues.
Former CM Trivendra Singh Rawat (L) and Tirath Singh Rawat (R).
DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand BJP legislature party will meet today at 3pm to elect a new leader after Tirath Singh Rawat resigned as chief minister on Friday night.
Amid suspense over the new pick, BJP state chief Madan Kaushik has already confirmed that the new chief minister would be from among the party MLAs.
There are at least half a dozen legislators who are being regarded as frontrunners for the key post.
The names doing the rounds include former CM Trivendra Singh Rawat, tourism minister Satpal Maharaj, minister Bishan Singh Chuphal, legislator Pushkar Dhami, state party chief Madan Kaushik and higher education minister Dhan Singh Rawat.
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