Veteran Congress leader Harish Rawat on Friday said Tirath Singh Rawat s resignation as Uttarakhand Chief Minister due to constitutional compulsion and byelections cannot be held in the state due to COVID is the biggest lie. What can be a bigger lie than this that byelections cannot be held in Uttarakhand due to COVID and the chief minister is resigning due to constitutional compulsion. The reality is that byelections have been held before in the same COVID period. The byelection has been held in Salt (an assembly constituency in Uttarakhand). The chief minister could have contested from there also, tweeted Harish Rawat.
Top BJP Meet Today Over Who Will Lead Uttarakhand Ahead Of Next Year s Elections Uttarakhand Chief Minister TS Rawat Quits: The legislature party meeting will begin at the BJP headquarters at 3 pm to elect its new leader in the presence of central observer Narendra Tomar and BJP general secretary in-charge of Uttarakhand Dushyant Kumar Gautam.
Updated: July 03, 2021 10:58 am IST
Tirath Singh Rawat resigned as Uttarakhand s Chief Minister. He was Chief Minister for less than 4 months
Dehradun:
The Uttarakhand BJP legislature party will meet this afternoon to elect its new leader, a day after Tirath Singh Rawat resigned as Chief Minister after a less than four-month stint.
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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat tendered his resignation to Governor Baby Rani Maurya late on Friday night, ending his tenure just four months after he took oath, and paved the way for the appointment of a third Chief Minister for the State this year.
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India: Uttarakhand CM Tirath Singh Rawat resigns, new leader to be chosen today
IANS/New Delhi Filed on July 3, 2021
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat submitting his resignation letter to Uttarakhand Governor Baby Rani Maurya. Photo: ANI
State to get its third chief minister in one year.
In a fiasco which reached its crescendo in barely four months, Uttarakhand will get its third Chief Minister in one year.
The incumbent Chief Minister, Tirath Singh Rawat met Governor Baby Rani Maurya on late Friday night and submitted his resignation.
The BJP legislature party will meet at 3pm (India time) on Saturday to choose a new leader for which sitting MLAs, Satpal Maharaj and Dhan Singh Rawat are said to be frontrunners. The two MLAS were called to Delhi on Friday by the BJP central leadership.
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