BJP Legislature Party in Uttarakhand to elect new leader on July 3
The Hindu
The move comes amid reports that reports that Tirath Singh Rawat has been asked by the BJP’s national leadership to step down.
The BJP has called a meeting of its legislature party in Uttarakhand on July 3 as a crisis brewed over the continuation of Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat barely four months into his tenure, and with reports that Mr. Rawat has been asked by the BJP’s national leadership to step down. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has been appointed as observer for the legislature party meet, which is likely to elect a new leader. Mr. Rawat had hotfooted it down to Delhi from Dehradun three days ago to find a resolution to the legal limbo he was stuck in — the need to get elected as a member of the Uttarakhand Assembly within the stipulated six months of having taken oath as Chief Minister, combined with the fact that under the Representation of People Act, bypolls are not held for vacant seats if the tenure of the Assembly expires within a year. The Uttarakhand Assembly’s term expires in March 2022. Sources told The Hindu that Mr. Rawat met with BJP president J.P. Nadda on July 2, a second time in the three days he had been in Delhi, where he was asked to put in his papers. In a letter to Mr. Nadda, Mr. Rawat is believed to have said that due to the difficulties in holding a bypoll soon, in order to make his September 10 deadline for being elected to the Uttarakhand Assembly, he was stepping down from the post of Chief Minister.More Related News