After long speculations, Tirath Singh Rawat has resigned from the post of Chief Minister of Uttarakhand late on Friday night. In such a situation, the question arises that what was the reason for which Tirath Rawat, who became CM four months ago, had to resign?
Dehrahun: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat has offered to resign from his post. With this, once again there has been a political earthquake in Uttarakhand. Speculation of his resignation was in full swing ever since Tirath Singh Rawat, who suddenly arrived in Delhi on Wednesday, met BJP President JP Nadda. Late on Friday evening, he offered to resign in front of JP Nadda. In such a situation, the question arises that what was the reason for which Tirath Rawat, who became CM four months ago, had to resign?
He was to become a member of the Legislative Assembly by September 10.
Actually, MP from Pauri, Tirath Singh Rawat became the Chief Minister on March 10. He had to become a member of the Legislative Assembly till September 10 to continue in his post. Gangotri and Haldwani, two assembly seats in the state where by-elections are to be held, are vacant. There was speculation that Rawat might contest the by-election from Gangotri seat, but in view of the assembly elections in February-March next year itself, it was considered difficult that the Election Commission should conduct the by-election.
After the resignation of Tirath, it is clear that there will be no by-elections in the two vacant assembly seats in the state. Now instead of Tirath Singh Rawat, someone who is an MLA will be given the command of the chief minister’s post. The BJP Legislature Party will decide the new name within the next two days.
Will take place Saturday legislature party meeting
BJP President Madan Kaushik said the legislature party to choose a new leader to the state party went convened a meeting of the Legislature Party headquarters on Saturday said. State President Kaushik himself will preside over this meeting convened at 3 o’clock on Saturday. Rawat, a Lok Sabha member from
CM Pauri, who could only stay for 111 days , took over as the Chief Minister on March 10 this year. Under the constitutional obligation, he was to be elected as a member of the assembly within six months i.e. before 10 September, but the biggest obstacle in the Chief Minister’s access to the assembly came in the form of a constitutional crisis when the assembly elections were less than a year away. So normally by-elections are not held in such a situation.
Couldn’t contest the elections due to Kovid, however, due to the
Kovid epidemic, the circumstances of the election could not be created at the moment. Asked why he did not contest the Salt by-elections held in the state in April to avoid a constitutional crisis, the Chief Minister said that at that time he was suffering from Covid and hence did not get time for it.
In 20 years, 9 faces of CM,
Uttarakhand, which came into existence as a separate state in the year 2000, has completed 20 years. It is interesting that in these twenty years 9 faces of CM were seen in the state. Their names are – Nityanand Swami, Bhagat Singh Koshyari, ND Tiwari, BC Khanduri, Ramesh Pokhriyal, Vijay Bahuguna, Harish Rawat, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Tirath Singh Rawat.
