New Delhi: Pushkar Singh Dhami took oath as the 12th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand in a grand event at the Parade ground in Dehradun today, This will be his second consecutive term in the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP President JP Nadda also participated in the event.



Along with Dhami, eight newly-elected MLAs were administered the oath of office by Uttarakhand Governor Lt Gen Gurmeet Singh. 


Cabinet Ministers who took oath along with Dhami are: 



  • Dr Dhan Singh Rawat

  • Ganesh Joshi

  • Rekha Arya

  • Subodh Uniyal

  • Saurav Bahuguna

  • Premchand Agarwal

  • Chandan Ram Das

  • Satpal Maharaj 


Other important dignitaries Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh along with UP CM-Designate Yogi Adityanath, Goa-CM designate Pramod Sawant, Himachal Pradesh CM Jairam Thakur, Rajasthan BJP leader Vasundhara Raje were also present during Pushkar Singh Dhami's swearing-in ceremony. 


Over 20,000 people from across the state participated in the grand event along with the top brass of BJP. 


Dhami who will sit on the CM chair for the second term had been brought in as a replacement for former chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat in July last year towards the fag end of the BJP government's last tenure. The BJP had contested the February 14 assembly polls seeking a full five-year term for the state's youngest CM.

Though losing his own seat of Khatima which he had been winning since the 2012 assembly polls, Dhami was credited for the BJP's big win in the state assembly polls in which the party won 47 out of a total of 70 assembly seats.


Though Dhami, 46, the youngest chief minister of the state, was a clear favourite for the top job despite losing his Khatima seat, which he represented twice in 2012 and 2017, whatever doubt remained about the leader getting a second term were scotched as the BJP central leadership opted for stability in the state that saw three chief ministers in four months in 2021.

It's for the first time that a BJP government will have a chief minister who himself lost the election.