Dehradun Mar 21 PTI Pushkar Singh Dhami will be the chief minister of Uttarakhand again the BJP announced on Monday ending 11 days of suspense over the post after the party won the assembly polls Partys central observer Rajnath Singh made the announcement after a meeting here of the BJP legislature party which elected Dhami as its leader Dhami then headed to the Raj Bhawan along with several newly elected BJP MLAs and Union Minister of State Meenakshi Lekhi to meet Governor Gurmit Singh and stake his claim to form the government His swearing-in ceremony as the states 12th chief minister will be held at the Parade Ground here on March 23 The BJP had won 47 of the 60 assembly seats in the state becoming the first party ever in Uttarakhands 21-year-old history to return to power in consecutive elections But Dhami failed to retain his own Khatima seat that he had been winning since 2012 After several rounds of deliberations the partys central leadership decided to continue with Dhami who first became CM last July and at 46 is the states youngest chief minister Dhami will have to get elected to the state assembly within six months Some BJP MLAs and independents have already offered to resign so that he can contest the bypolls from a vacated seat Defence Minister Rajanath Singh who had arrived in Dehradun along with Meenakshi Lekhi in the afternoon said no other name was discussed at the legislature party meeting Dhami was the MLAs unanimous choice he told reporters on emerging from the meeting at the BJPs state headquarters I am sure under his leadership the state will develop on all fronts he said Dhamis supporters who were shouting slogans outside the party office burst into celebrations as soon as the decision was announced By choosing Dhami the BJP has broken from its past picking a leader who lost his own assembly seat to head a state government In the 2017 assembly elections Prem Kumar Dhumal failed to get appointed as Himachal Pradesh CM after he lost his own seat In Goa the same year the party chose Pramod Sawant instead of continuing with Laxmikant Parsekar after he failed to win a place in the assembly This time however the BJP which replaced two CMs in Uttarakhand in 2021 went for continuity The party has shown faith in the young generation to lead the state and realise the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Uttarakhand said Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank a former chief minister and an ex-Union minister who was present at the MLAs meeting Dhami too spoke about Modis aspirations for the state The states development will be given momentum and Prime Minister Narendra Modis grand vision for the development of Uttarakhand will be turned into a reality the CM-designate said Uttarakhand will be made a leading state over the next ten years he added Dhami had been brought in as a surprise replacement for CM Tirath Singh Rawat last July Earlier in the same year Trivendra Singh Rawat was replaced In a tweet Dhami thanked Modi BJP president J P Nadda Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for assigning to him the responsibility of the mukhya sevak once again At Dhamis home supporters daubed each others faces with gulal Two ministers in Dhamis previous cabinet --Harak Singh Rawat and Yashpal Arya - had switched to the Congress ahead of the polls There is speculation now that former chief minister B C Khanduris daughter Ritu Khanduri and ex-CM Vijay Bahugunas son Saurav Bahuguna could fill the berths PTI ALM RDK JTR RT ASH ASH

Panaji (Goa) [India], March 10 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party, according to early trends, was leading at atleast eight constituencies in the 40-seat Goa assembly as counting of votes began on Thursday.

Panaji Jan 23 PTI Former Goa chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar who has resigned from the BJP after being denied ticket for the next months state Assembly polls on Sunday said he will contest the election from Mandrem constituency as an independent Parsekar a veteran leader said he has tendered his resignation on Saturday and left all the posts in the party At the time of his resignation Parsekar was the head of the ruling partys manifesto committee for the February 14 Assembly polls He said that after his resignation several political parties have approached him but he would prefer to contest the election as an independent candidate I will soon file my nomination he added The 65-year-old politician was upset after the party denied him ticket from Mandrem Assembly segment The BJP has fielded sitting MLA Dayanand Sopte from the constituency which Parsekar had represented between 2002 and 2017 Sopte had defeated Parsekar in the 2017 polls as a Congress candidate but joined the ruling party in 2019 along with nine other leaders Parsekar was the chief minister of Goa between 2014 and 2017 He was selected to head the state after the then chief minister Manohar Parrikar was inducted into the Union cabinet as the Defence Minister PTI RPS NP NP

Panaji (Goa) [India], January 22 (ANI): After being denied a ticket for the upcoming Goa Assembly polls, former Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Laxmikant Parsekar resigned from the membership of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday.

Panaji (Goa) [India], January 22 (ANI): After being denied a ticket for the upcoming Goa Assembly polls, former Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Laxmikant Parsekar on Saturday said he would resign from the ruling party and contest as an independent candidate.

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Panaji Jan 22 PTI Former Goa chief minister and senior BJP leader Laxmikant Parsekar who was denied ticket by the party for the next months state Assembly elections on Saturday said he will resign from the ruling party Talking to PTI the 65-year-old leader said he does not wish to remain in the party and will formally submit his resignation by this evening Parsekar currently heads the BJPs manifesto committee for the upcoming Goa elections and is also a member of the partys core committee The BJP has nominated sitting MLA Dayanand Sopte from Mandrem Assembly segment which Parsekar had represented between 2002 and 2017 Sopte had defeated Parsekar in the 2017 state polls as a Congress candidate but joined the ruling party in 2019 along with nine other leaders As of now I have decided to resign What I should be doing next would be decided later Parsekar said He said that Sopte has been neglecting the original BJP workers in Mandrem due to which there is large-scale resentment among them Parsekar was the chief minister of Goa between 2014 and 2017 He was selected to head the state after the then chief minister Manohar Parrikar was inducted into the Union cabinet as the Defence Minister The BJP has announced its first list of 34 candidates for the February 14 Goa Assembly elections There are total 40 seats in the state PTI RPS NP NP

Panaji (Goa) [India], January 22 (ANI): Former Goa chief minister and senior BJP leader Laxmikant Parsekar, who was denied a ticket by the party for state Assembly elections, on Saturday said he will resign from the ruling party.