Uttarakhand BJP Legislature Party Meeting In Dehradun Tomorrow, Likely To Decide Next Chief Minister

The leaders attending the meeting will take a final call on the name of the next chief minister of the hill state.

Madan Kaushik and Pushkar Dhami (File Photo: ANI)

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will hold its legislature party meeting in Uttarakhand capital Dehradun on Sunday.

The leaders attending the meeting will take a final call on the name of the next chief minister of the hill state.

The BJP will announce the next chief minister of Uttarakhand after this meeting.

According to reports, the BJP central leadership will hold a meeting in this regard prior to the legislature party meet.

Earlier this week, the BJP held a meeting over government formation and to elect the next chief minister of Uttarakhand at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official 7, Lok Kalyan Marg residence in the national capital.

The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP president J.P. Nadda and BJP election-in-charge Pralhad Joshi.

Speculations are, however, rife that former Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami may yet again be given the charge to lead the hill state.

Earlier on March 11, Dhami resigned as the chief minister of Uttarakhand.

This came after he lost from the Khatima constituency to Congress candidate Bhuwan Chandra Kapri by over 6,000 votes in the assembly polls.

The BJP on the popular mandate for the second consecutive term in the hill state and won 47 seats in the 70-member Uttarakhand Assembly.

The Congress, which was relying on an anti-incumbency wave against the state government, emerged victorious in just 19 seats.

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won two seats, while Independent candidates bagged two seats.