Lok Sabha MP from Garhwal Tirath Singh Rawat has taken oath as the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. This change in the top post of the state comes after Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned as the CM on Tuesday after deliberations with the senior BJP party members.
The decision to elevate Tirath Singh Rawat as the new chief minister of the state was taken in the meeting of the BJP Legislature Party in Dehradun on Wednesday. It is being reported that Tirath Singh Rawat was the frontrunner from the line-up of choices like Union Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Uttarakhand Minister Dhan Singh Rawat for BJP.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Tirath Singh Rawat after he took oath as the chief minister of the hill state. PM Modi, in a tweet, expressed that under his leadership the state will "scale new heights of progress".
"Will continue to take forward the development works done by Trivendra Rawatji in the last few years. Never have I seen such development in the previous decades," Tirath Singh Rawat told BJP MLAs after he was chosen as the new Chief Minister of Uttarkhand.
Tirath Singh Rawat needs to resign from his Lok Sabha seat and will also require to be elected from an assembly seat in the state within six months.