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Trivendra Singh Rawat to be sworn in as Uttarakhand CM on Saturday

Senior BJP leader Trivendra Singh Rawat will become the ninth Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. Fifty-six year old Trivendra was elected…

Trivendra Singh Rawat to be sworn in as Uttarakhand CM on Saturday

Trivendra Singh Rawat (PHOTO: Facebook)

Senior BJP leader Trivendra Singh Rawat will become the ninth Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. Fifty-six year old Trivendra was elected as the legislative party leader of the BJP in a meeting held in Dehradun on Friday. The stage is now clear for the CM to take oath, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah in the state capital on Saturday. 

Initially over half a dozen names were in the race for the top post. But, the final race got reduced to Trivendra, Satpal Maharaj and Prakash Pant. It is said that veteran BJP leader and Nainital Member of Parliament Bhagat Singh Koshyari backed Rawat. In popularly BJP used terminology Trivendra received double engine support- one from Koshyari and other from party chief Amit Shah. Rawat is considered close to Shah. 

A former Sangh Parchark, Trivendra is post graduate from HNB Garhwal University. Rawat has also done a diploma in journalism. He won the 2002 and 2007 assembly polls from Doiwala assembly seat. In 2012, Trivendra shifted to Raipur assembly seat and suffered defeat against Umesh Sharma of Congress. It was followed by his loss in 2014 Doiwala assembly by-election against Heera Singh Bisht of Congress.

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Two consecutive defeats, badly shattered the confidence of Rawat. Six months before the start of the 2017 Uttarakhand assembly polls, Trivendra Singh Rawat was unsure of the seat to contest from. He was in a dilemma between Doiwala and Raipur seats. Finally he decided to fight from his old seat Doiwala and scored a thumping win against Heera Singh Bisht of Congress by a margin of over 24,000 votes.

Trivendra served as the state agriculture minister in Khanduri government in 2007. Rawat hogged limelight at that time by launching the cow urine project. Though many made fun of the agriculture minister at that time, but now distilled cow urine is now in popular demand and its market is growing with each passing year. 

After elected the leader of the BJP legislative party, Trivendra Singh Rawat met Uttarakhand Governor KK Paul to present his claim of forming the government in the hill state. Trivendra Rawat will be dwelling in the official Chief Minister residence- which Harish Rawat did not used considering it inauspicious.

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