Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], March 23 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Uttarakhand Chief Minister-designate Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday offered prayers at Tapkeshwar Mahadev temple in Dehradun ahead of the oath ceremony.
Dehradun Mar 22 PTI Having decided to retain Pushkar Singh Dhami as the chief minister the BJP has now moved on to the next job at hand cabinet formation in UttarakhandAs the party leaders are busy picking up MLAs for ministerial berths the media continues to speculate about the look of Dhamis new cabinet which is likely to be a combination of old and new facesAt least three new inductions in Dhamis new cabinet are a certainty As Harak Singh Rawat and Yashpal Arya who were members of the last cabinet joined the Congress ahead of the Assembly polls and former minister Swami Yatishwaranand lost his seat the party needs to pick up three new faces to fill the slots that were occupied by themProbables who could be brought in for the three slots include former chief minister Vijay Bahugunas son and Sitarganj MLA Saurav Bahugua former chief minister Bhuvan Chandra Khanduris daughter and Kotdwar MLA Ritu Khanduri Bhushan and Dilip Singh Rawat who scored an emphatic win over Harak Singh Rawats daughter-in-law Anukriti Gusain in LansdowneAll of them will make their debut as ministers if inducted into Dhamis new cabinetOld faces likely to be retained are Satpal Maharaj Dhan Singh Rawat Rekha Arya and Arvind Pandey who were all members of Dhamis last cabinetDhami is all set to take oath as the 12th chief minister of the hill state along with his cabinet at a grand ceremony on the Parade Ground here on Wednesday afternoon in the presence of the top BJP brass including Prime Minister Narendra Modi Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda PTI ALM RC
New Delhi Jan 20 PTI The BJP on Thursday released its first list of 59 candidates for the polls to the 70-member Uttarakhand Assembly with Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to contest from his current constituency KhatimaUnion minister Pralhad Joshi said the list has five women and asserted that the party will fight the polls on Prime Minister Narendra Modis vision for Uttarakhand and also the work of its state government The party which had won 57 seats in 2017 has dropped around 10 sitting MLAs State BJP president Madan Kaushik will again contest from Haridwar while names of ministers like Satpal Maharaj and Dhan Singh Rawat are also in the list Fifteen candidates are Brahmins and three from the trading community Joshi noted Joshi and BJP general secretary Arun Singh said the party will win again with a big mandate and claimed that the state saw development under its rule after facing step-motherly treatment during the Congress-led UPA dispensation of 10 years Rail tracks were led in the state Char Dham infrastructure developed and over Rs 10000 crore spent on building roads outside the PM Gramin Sadak Yojna Joshi said about the work undertaken in the last five years Assembly polls will be held in the state on February 14 PTI KR DV DV
Dehradun Nov 29 PTI Uttarakhand Tourism and Culture Minister Satpal Maharaj on Monday submitted the report of a cabinet sub-committee on the Chardham Devasthanam Board to Chief Minister Pushkar Singh DhamiThis comes a day after a high-level committee constituted by the state government to look into the Uttarakhand Char Dham Devasthanam Management Act 2019 submitted its final report to DhamiThe recommendations of the two panels have not been made public yetPriests of the Chardham -- Kedarnath Badrinath Gangotri and Yamunotri -- have been opposing the board ever since it was created during the chief ministership of Trivendra Singh Rawat saying it is an infringement upon their traditional rights over the Himalayan templesThe Devasthanam Board looks after the administration of 51 temples including the Chardham PTI ALM DIV DIV
Dehradun Nov 28 PTI A high-level committee set up by the Uttarakhand government to look into the Uttarakhand Char Dham Devasthanam Management Act 2019 submitted its final report to Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami in Rishikesh on SundayThe report was submitted by committee president Manohar Kant DhyaniPriests of the Chardham -- Kedarnath Badrinath Gangotri and Yamunotri -- have long been demanding the dissolution of the Devasthanam Board which they see as an encroachment upon their rightsConstituted during the chief ministership of Trivendra Singh Rawat the board is mandated to run the affairs of 51 temples in Uttarakhand including the ChardhamSoon after taking over former chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat announced that the temples will be removed from the boards control But he had to step down before he could keep his wordState Assembly Speaker Premchand Aggarwal and cabinet ministers Subodh Uniyal and Satpal Maharaj were present when Dhyani submitted the panels final report to the chief ministerDhami said a decision on the matter will be taken after examining the committees reportThe recommendations of the committee were not made public immediatelyThe committee had submitted its interim report to the state government on October 25 PTI ALM DIV DIV
Dehradun Nov 25 PTI BJP poll in-charge for Uttarakhand Pralhad Joshi on Thursday said the party is better prepared this time and confident to achieve the target of winning more than 60 assembly seats in the state Joshi who is on a two-day visit to the state to review the poll preparations said the partys focus is on reaching out to people at the grassroots Our preparations this time look better than previous elections already I am confident that the party will achieve its target of winning more than sixty seats in Uttarakhand he told reporters Abki bar saath ke paar is the partys poll slogan in Uttarakhand where assembly polls are due next year The BJP had won 57 out of a total of 70 assembly seats in the state in 2017 Joshi and Uttarakhand BJP president Madan Kaushik held a meeting at the party office here with senior party leaders including former chief ministers Vijay Bahuguna Trivendra Singh Rawat Tirath Singh Rawat Cabinet Minister Satpal Maharaj and Tehri MP Mala Rajya Lakshmi Shah to discuss the partys strategy in view of the coming polls The party has decided to send a team to all the 70 constituencies in the state to take the opinion of prominent people and party workers on candidates who will be fielded in the elections A list will be prepared on the basis of the feedback and sent to the partys central leadership for approval Kaushik said PTI ALM AQS AQS
Dehradun Oct 22 PTI The death count in Uttarakhand rose to 75 on Friday as rescue workers found more bodies and also brought to safety score of stranded people after the rains that recently lashed the state State Disaster Response Force SDRF men rescued 65 trekkers including six foreigners stranded near Bageshwars Pindari and Kafni glaciers Twenty-three people were rescued from from Darma Valley of Pithoragarh The official death toll in the state now is 68 including the five bodies of members of a team of 11 people who were trekking from Uttarakhands Uttarkashi to Chitkul in neighbouring Himachal Pradesh The figure however does not include two others member of the Chitkul trek reported dead Five people feared dead in Bageshwar are also not included in the official count Rains battered Uttarakhand for nearly three days beginning Sunday night with the Kumaon division bearing the brunt of it An official said Kumaon suffered a loss of Rs 2000 crore out of Rs 7000 croe damage statewide estimated by the Uttarakhand government SDRF teams have rescued 42 tourists including six foreigners from Dwali near the Pindari glacier and 23 from the Kafni glacier Bageshwar DM Vineet Kumar told PTI Meanwhile two Cheetah helicopters which were to make sorties in search of 10 members of a trekking team stranded in Sundardhunga could not take off due to cloudy weather he said But four members of the team have returned safe We suspect that there may have been some casualties too The helicopters will make another attempt early on Saturday morning in search of the missing members of the trekking team Kumar said Besides 15 people who had gone missing in Sarmool the point of origin of the Saryu river have also been found safe he said Twenty-one tourists and two ailing locals were rescued from Darma Valley of Pithoragarh district DM Ashish Chauhan said Two surviving members of a trekking team have already been rescued while the search for two missing is on officials in Uttarkashi said Kumaon Divisional Commissioner Sushil Kumar said Kumaon division bore the brunt of the unseasonal spell of record rains which damaged crops and property worth Rs 2000 crore besides accounting for the highest number of deaths and large scale destruction of houses the official said Fifty-nine deaths were reported from Kumaon alone with Nainital reporting the maximum 35 deaths followed by 11 in Champawat six in Almora one in Bageshwar and three each in Pithoragarh and Udham Singh Nagar districts Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday visited Dungri village in Chamoli district to meet the disaster-hit people Accompanied by Tourism Minister Satpal Maharaj state Disaster Management Minister Dhan Singh Rawat and officials Dhami trekked up the steep slippery slopes of the village with a stick in hand for an on-the-spot assessment of the losses Two persons of a family were buried in the rubble of a landslide in the village on October 19 Dhami met the surviving members of the family and promised them all help He asked officials to speed up relief and rescue efforts in the affected areas assuring them that they will not have to face any shortage of resources PTI ALM RDK RDK
Dehradun Oct 22 PTI Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday visited Dungri village in Chamoli district to meet the disaster-hit people who lost their kin in the landslides triggered by heavy rains in the state Accompanied by Tourism Minister Satpal Maharaj State Disaster Management Minister Dhan Singh Rawat and officials the Chief Minister trekked up the steep slippery slopes of the village with a stick in hand for support to do an on-the-spot assessment of the losses Two persons of a family were buried in the rubble of a landslide in the village on October 19 Dhami met the surviving members of the family and promised them all help from the government He asked officials to speed up relief and rescue efforts in the affected areas assuring them that they will not have to face any shortage of resources The affected families will get all support from the government They have lost their kin and have little children We will ensure that they are given good care Dhami told reporters during a visit to the village A total of 65 people were killed 22 injured and two went missing during the recent spell of downpours in the hill state which also saw 60 houses being damaged Many hectares of forest and agricultural land with standing paddy crop in them were also swept away in the rains with the Chief Minister pegging the losses as per an initial estimate at Rs 7000 crore Search and rescue operations continue in the upper areas of Kumaon and Garhwal regions to evacuate stranded people including tourists to safety PTI ALM HDA
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