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BJP MP Tirath Singh Rawat to become new Uttarakhand CM, swearing-in ceremony at 4 pm
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BJP MP Tirath Singh Rawat to become new Uttarakhand CM, swearing-in ceremony at 4 pm

| @indiablooms | 10 Mar 2021, 12:12 pm

Dehradun/IBNS: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Tirath Singh Rawat will become the new Uttarakhand Chief Minister as Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned from the post Tuesday.

Rawat, 56, was the BJP chief in Uttarakhand from 2013 to 2015 and has also remained as an MLA in Uttarakhand from 2012 to 2017.

Trivendra Singh Rawat's resignation comes amid a growing resentment towards the office of Rawat and following his trip to Delhi on Monday where he had met with the BJP leadership.

Rawat, 60, handed in his resignation to Governor Baby Rani Maurya just days before completing four years in power.

A first-timer, he was chosen by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the BJP swept the Uttarakhand election in 2017.

The BJP won 57 seats in the 69-member assembly while Congress managed to bag just 11 seats.

"I have been working in politics for a while now and my party gave me an opportunity to work as the state Chief Minister for four years - the golden years of my life. Despite coming from a rural background, I was entrusted with the responsibility to lead the state; that is only possible in a party like BJP," Rawat told the media.

"Now that party has taken a collective decision to entrust the responsibility of state chief ministership to some other leader," he said.

It is a rare move by the BJP to change the CM over non-performance issues especially a year before the assembly polls.

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