Though party won all 5 Lok Sabha seats in state, it is shaky after the bypoll defeats. Former CM Tirath Singh Rawat expressed concern at the way party workers were being treated.
With leadership crisis — BJP changed CMs twice in 4 months last year — becoming a poll issue, ruling party is going overboard not to allow Dhami’s predecessors to overshadow him.
In an interview with ThePrint, Tirath Singh Rawat, who was forced to resign as Uttarakhand CM since he was not an MLA, also says he would've won the by-polls if they were held.
Dhami was named as the Uttarakhand CM Thursday in a surprise move as the BJP was forced to choose a new leader in just four months after a ‘constitutional crisis’.
Tirat Singh Rawat resigned from the post late Friday evening. The consensus on the new CM was reached after the BJP legislature party meet on Saturday afternoon in Dehradun.
Tirath Singh Rawat's resignation has led to questions on whether EC can hold bypolls in the time before Uttarakhand's next polls. Experts explain why there is no legal bar.
Rawat, a Lok Sabha MP, will have to resign and get elected to state assembly by 10 Sept. BJP leaders maintain that Rawat is resigning because there is no clarity if EC will hold bypolls on time.
According to rules, Lok Sabha MP Tirath Singh Rawat has time only until 10 September to resign and get elected to the Vidhan Sabha, as the state has no legislative council.
A Border Roads Organisation Camp came under an avalanche in the afternoon of 23 April after a heavy snowfall in Sumna area of Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.
CM Tirath Singh Rawat was at the meeting of VHP, which was called to decide on whether an agitation should be launched to push the govt on withdrawing the Act.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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