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.
Uttarakhand CM allocates portfolios, keeps Home, Finance with himself
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Pushkar Singh Dhami has no previous experience of being a minister and his surprise elevation to the top post allegedly rankled several senior ministers. (PTI)
DEHRADUN: A day after Khatima legislator Pushkar Singh Dhami was named as the CM choice by BJP to replace Tirath Rawat, hectic day-long parleys were done throughout the day on Sunday by the party’s trouble-shooters to pacify senior leaders who were reportedly upset at the choice. Dhami, 45, a two-time MLA, has no previous experience of being a minister and his surprise elevation to the top post allegedly rankled several senior ministers like Satpal Maharaj, Yashpal Arya, Bishan Singh Chuphal, Subodh Uniyal and Harak Singh Rawat. Many of them have a Congress background and had joined BJP in 2016 after rebelling from the Congress.
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Published : Jul 5, 2021, 6:57 am IST
Updated : Jul 5, 2021, 6:57 am IST
Mr Dhami is the youngest CM of the hill state and represents Khatima Assembly constituency in Udham Singh Nagar district
Uttarakhand new Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami (L) gestures to BJP MLA Satpal Maharaj (R) after taking oath during a swearing-in ceremony in Dehradun, Sunday, July 4, 2021. (PTI)
New Delhi/Dehradun: A “third generation” BJP leader, Pushkar Singh Dhami, took the oath as Uttarakhand’s 11th chief minister – the third in the last four months on Sunday, the day the BJP central leadership intervened to exhort some senior state leaders to “accept” the “unanimous decision” taken by the legislature party of choosing Mr Dhami as its leader.
Pushkar Singh Dhami with BJP leaders, in Dehradun, July 3. (PTI Photo)
They say all s well that ends well. Is it really over? And is all well in Uttarakhand BJP?
Pushkar Singh Dhami, 45, took oath as the eleventh chief minister of Uttarakhand on Sunday. Dhami replaced Tirath Singh Rawat, who submitted his resignation on Friday, citing a “constitutional crisis” as his election to the state legislative assembly within the stipulated time might not be possible due to Covid-19.
Along with Dhami, 11 MLAs of the BJP were sworn in as members of his council of ministers. They included Satpal Maharaj, Harak Singh Rawat, Bansidhar Bhagat, Yashpal Arya, Bishan Singh Chuphal, Subodh Uniyal, Dhan Singh Rawat, Arvind Pandey, Ganesh Joshi, Rekha Arya and Swami Yatishwaranand.
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