Uttarakhand, which reached its peak in barely four months, will get its third chief minister in a year.
Outgoing Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat met Governor Baby Rani Maurya late on Friday night and submitted his resignation.
The BJP Legislature Party will meet on Saturday at 3 pm to elect a new leader, for which sitting MLAs Satpal Maharaj and Dhan Singh Rawat are being put at the forefront. The central leadership of the BJP had called both the MLAs to Delhi on Friday.
According to reports, Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar will be the observer in the legislature party meeting to be held in Dehradun.
It is not clear how this current impasse arose, when there must have been an appearance that assembly bypolls may not be possible at least 10 months before the state goes to polls next year.
The scenario could happen when Rawat was sworn in as chief minister in March, with just one year in the Uttarakhand elections, amid raging resentment against the then chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat.
Speculations about Rawat’s impending resignation started last week with reports that there would be no bypolls.
To remain as chief minister, Rawat, who is an MP, needed to be elected to the Uttarakhand assembly by September 10.
However, the Election Commission, which faced criticism for holding the elections in March-April amid a second wave of the monstrous Covid, which was said to be one of the reasons for its flare-up, was not too keen.
Rawat has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, especially his comments on women wearing ripped jeans. He had also said that for 200 years India was ruled by America, not Britain.
Rawat, who returned to Dehradun on Friday evening after three days in Delhi, where he held a meeting with BJP chief JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, addressed a press conference where it was speculated that he would announce his resignation. can. However, he only talked about the achievements of his government in the state.
He was supposed to meet the governor on Saturday morning to tender his resignation, but did so late on Friday.
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