Tirath Singh Rawat resigns as Uttarakhand CM months after taking oath Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat (L) with Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) in New Delhi.
Tirath Singh Rawat resigns as Uttarakhand CM months after taking oath Barely four months after taking oath as Uttarakhand's new chief minister, Tirath Singh Rawat on Friday offered to resign from his post. Tirath Rawat is in Dehradun where he met Governor Baby Rani Maurya and submitted his resignation. The Bharatiya Janata Party legislature party meeting is scheduled to be held at 3 pm tomorrow at the party headquarters in Uttarakhand where the BJP MLAs will meet to pick a new leader. Uttarakhand chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat on Friday night submitted his resignation to state governor Baby Rani Maurya , nearly four months after assuming the top post in the hill state. His resignation comes in the wake of uncertainty over the Election Commission announcing bypolls in the state ahead of the assembly elections, which are due next year. Tirath Singh Rawat, a BJP MP, would have had to get elected as an MLA within six months of assuming office if he were to continue his