Bharatiya Janata Party leader Tirath Singh Rawat resigned as the Uttarakhand chief minister late on Friday evening after a day of speculati...
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Tirath Singh Rawat resigned as the Uttarakhand chief minister late on Friday evening after a day of speculation and political drama, PTI reported. His exit has paved way for a third chief minister in the hill state in less than four months.
A legislature party meeting of the BJP will take place on Saturday to elect a new leader for Uttarakhand, according to News18.
Rawat reached the Raj Bhavan around 11 pm on Friday with Cabinet colleagues and handed over his resignation to Governor Baby Rani Maurya. Speaking to reporters outside the governor’s official residence, Rawat said he quit because of the “constitutional crisis” that emerged due to the requirement for him to get elected to the Assembly within six months.
He had taken oath on March 10 after his predecessor Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned. Since, Tirath Singh Rawat does not hold an Assembly seat, he had to be elected from one of the constituencies by September 10.
“I submitted my resignation to the governor,” Tirath Singh Rawat told reporters. “I found it fit to resign to resolve the constitutional crisis that had emerged due to Sections 151 and 164 [of the Representation of the People Act].”
Tirath Singh Rawat resigns as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. BJP to hold...
