Tirath Singh Rawat to be new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

Tirath Singh Rawat will be the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. He was elected the new leader at the Legislature Party meeting in Dehradun. Tirath Singh Rawat is an MP from Garhwal, he has also been the state president of the BJP. Since the resignation of Trivendra Singh Rawat yesterday, many names were being discussed, but in the Legislature Party meeting, the name of Tirath Singh Rawat was stamped. It is being told that he may take oath as Chief Minister at four in the evening.

Tirath Singh Rawat has been elected the 10th Chief Minister of the state. At the meeting of the Legislature party, Trivendra Singh Rawat proposed, which was passed by voice vote. All legislators including BJP’s Uttarakhand in-charge Dushyant Kumar Gautam are present in the meeting along with BJP’s national vice-president and former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh.

Born in 1964, Tirath Singh Rawat has been active in politics since his student days. Tirath has been a promoter of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and a national minister of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. He is one of the people closest to former Chief Minister and MP Major Gen (retd.) B.C. Khanduri and was fielded from the Chaubattakhal seat in the 2012 assembly elections where he won. In February 2013, he was given the responsibility of the state president by the party and in 2015, he was given the responsibility of national general secretary.