Dehradun Apr 21 PTI BJP MLA Kailash Chandra Gahtori who quit his Champawat assembly seat to enable Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to contest from there on Thursday said he did it to help the young leader to work full term to meet the expectations of the central leadership Six months ago poll analysts were not giving the BJP more than 20 seats in the assembly polls But the chief minister worked hard and people gave 47 out of 70 assembly seats to the party Gahtori said shortly after quitting his seat It was no less than a miracle It was possible because of Dhamis young leadership I thought he deserves a full five-year term to meet the expectations of the partys central leadership from him and so I vacated my seat Gahtori told reporters Pradesh BJP president Madan Kaushik said the party workers in Champawat had sent a proposal for fielding the chief minister from that seat and Gahtori who is very popular in the constituency had expressed his desire to vacate the seat for him Kaushik said the party is ready for the by-poll whenever it takes place Dhami needs to be elected to the state assembly within six months of being sworn in to continue as the chief minister PTI ALM ALM RAX RAX
Dehradun Mar 21 PTI The BJP legislative party meeting to elect the new chief minister of Uttarakhand began on Monday evening at the partys office on Balbir Road here BJPs central observers for Uttarakhand Rajnath Singh Meenakshi Lekhi and the partys poll incharge for the state Pralhad Joshi are at the meeting which began around 5 pm Before the meeting with newly elected MLAs began here the party leaders from Delhi stopped at a hotel in the city to confabulate with senior state leaders including caretaker CM Pushkar Singh Dhami and former Union minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank Rajnath and other central party leaders were received at the hotel by Dhami Satpal Maharaj Nishank and others The meeting will elect the leader of the BJP legislative party in Uttarakhand ending the 11-day suspense over who will become the CM of the state Dhami under whose leadership the BJP had contested the February 14 Assembly polls in Uttarakhand is the frontrunner among around half a dozen names doing the rounds Chaubattakhal MLA Satpal Maharaj Shrinagar MLA Dhan Singh Rawat and Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni are among people whose names are doing rounds The BJPs dilemma on the choice of a chief minister for Uttarakhand was caused by Dhamis loss in Khatima a seat he had been winning since the 2012 Assembly polls However a section of BJP leaders credit Dhami for the partys big win in the state Assembly polls and want him to be the chief minister again so that he gets a full five-year term to deliver on Prime Minister Narendra Modis vision of development for the state Dhami and state BJP president Madan Kaushik had attended a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his residence on Sunday Former Uttarakhand chief ministers Nishank and Trivendra Singh Rawat had also attended the Sunday meeting with Shah after which Dhami had said the chief minister will be decided at the legislative party meeting in Dehradun on Monday The party which went to polls with Dhami as its chief ministerial candidate won 47 of 70 Assembly seats Political observers here feel the BJP does not have much scope left for experimentation in Uttarakhand where it has already experimented on two chief ministers in its last term Dhami had been brought in as a replacement for Tirath Singh Rawat towards the fag end of its tenure in July 2021 and his contribution to the partys good electoral performance cannot be overlooked political analysts said However if the party goes for a new face the necessity to strike a caste and regional balance will be a deciding factor The party will also try to give a CM who can keep his flock together and completes the whole five-year term they said However the BJP has a penchant for springing surprises on such occasions Both Tirath Singh Rawat and Dhami were surprise choices for the post of the CM during the partys previous term PTI ALM ALM RDK RDK
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], March 20 (ANI): After the Bharatiya Janata Party emerged victorious in the recently held Uttarakhand Assembly election, the newly elected MLAs will take their oath of office at a ceremony at the Vidhan Sabha in Dehradun at 9:30 AM on Monday.
New Delhi [India], March 20 (ANI): Uttarakhand caretaker Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday informed that the state BJP legislature party will now meet tomorrow in the evening in Dehradun.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], March 16 (ANI): The Uttarakhand Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislature party is likely to take place either on March 19 or 20 to elect the party leader, said a senior BJP leader on Wednesday.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], March 15 (ANI): BJP Uttarakhand unit president Madan Kaushik and Pushkar Singh Dhami are expected to meet party chief JP Nadda in the national capital on Tuesday.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], March 13 (ANI): With suspense over the next Uttarakhand Chief Minister prevailing after the loss of Pushkar Singh Dhami from the Khatima seat, state unit Bharatiya Janata Party chief Madan Kaushik is heading to the national capital on Sunday for consultations with the top brass of the party.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], February 19 (ANI): The Uttarakhand unit of the BJP will send 80 party leaders for campaigning in the remaining phases of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], February 13 (ANI): The Congress veteran Harish Rawat and the BJP's youth bet Pushkar Singh Dhami will have their fingers crossed on Monday when Uttarakhand goes to poll for its 70 members' Assembly. Both the Congress and the BJP have battled political instability in the state in the last two decades after it was carved out of Uttar Pradesh.
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