TWO-TERM MLA from Khatima in Udham Singh Nagar district and a young face of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami, will be sworn in as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand on Sunday. Dhami, 45, will be the 11th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, and in fact, the third in the last four months. At the meeting of the party legislature that started at 3 pm, outgoing Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat and party state president Madan Kaushik proposed Dhami’s candidature for the leader’s post. The proposal was supported by over half-a-dozen MLAs including former CM Trivendra Singh Rawat, Cabinet Ministers Satpal Maharaj, Harak Singh Rawat, Bansi Dhar Bhagat. Meanwhile, Congress leader and former Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat hit out at the BJP for pushing the state into political instability.

Source: Indian Express July 04, 2021 00:01 UTC