Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat quit his position on Tuesday amid speculations of unrest within the BJP’s state unit.
“The party gave me a golden opportunity to serve this State for four years. I had never thought that I would get such an opportunity. The party has now decided that the opportunity to serve as CM should be given to someone else now,” he said in a press briefing after submitting his resignation to Governor Baby Rani Maurya in Dehradun.
“BJP legislature party meeting is scheduled to be held at 10 am tomorrow at the party office,” he added.
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Earlier, amid speculations about a leadership change, Rawat met BJP President JP Nadda at the latter’s residence in the national capital on Monday night. He left Delhi for Dehradun on Tuesday.
According to ANI sources, the crisis in the state unit is still not over. However, the party officially maintained that there was no crisis in the state unit.
Earlier, while speaking to ANI, Dushyant Gautam did accept that there is some discomfort within the party, but he called this normal as it “happens during an election year”. He added that meetings had been held and a conclusion would be reached soon.
If rebels don’t calm down after the Cabinet reshuffle, the BJP is not likely to project Rawat as the Chief Ministerial face for the upcoming state Assembly polls scheduled for 2022.
Last week, BJP Uttarakhand held an emergency core group meeting which was attended by observer Raman Singh, Dushyant Gautam, Trivendra Singh Rawat, Ajay Bhatt, Naresh Bansal, Mala Rajya Laxmi and others.