Dehradun: After stepping down of Trivendra Singh Rawat as Chief Minister on Tuesday – Tirath Singh Rawat will be the next Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
Tirath Singh Rawat is currently the Lok Sabha MP from Garhwal parliamentary constituency and he was member of the Uttarakhand Assembly also from Chaubttakhal constituency from 2012 to 2017.
The meeting to elect a new chief minister began at the state party headquarters in Dehradun on Wednesday, a day after Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned from the post.
Rawat tendered his resignation after meeting governor Baby Rani Maurya on Tuesday, a year before Uttarkhand is scheduled to go to the polls. The BJP swept the elections in 2017, winning 57 seats in the 70-member Uttarakhand Assembly. Congress, on the other hand, won just 11 seats.