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Leadership change in Uttarakhand?

Another day of hectic political activity and uncertainty

Talks of leadership change in Uttarakhand continued on Monday as chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat reached Delhi changing his earlier schedule to attend an event in Gairsain. While party leaders continued to state that the CM’s visit to Delhi was a routine visit, unconfirmed reports about political turmoil continued throughout the day.

Rawat reached Delhi to meet the top BJP leadership amid speculation  that the party is mulling a change of leadership in the mountain state. Varying reports came out as the day progressed. However, MLA and BJP State chief spokesman Munna Singh Chauhan, who accompanied Rawat to Delhi, said that the speculations are baseless. He said, “The CM has come to Delhi to meet the party leadership as is usually done to discuss various important issues. There may be speculations in Dehradun but in Delhi, the CM’s visit is nothing out of the normal. The CM visited Delhi to meet top party leaders following the passage of the budget. There are rumours being floated about leadership change but there is little substance in these. No official meeting of the BJP legislature party has been called. The BJP state president Banshidhar Bhagat has already stated clearly that no leadership change is about to happen, which should be considered a conclusive statement.”

Meanwhile, according to sources, BJP national vice president Raman Singh and general 

secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam are learned to have submitted their report to party national president JP Nadda on their return from the state 

where they had gone to speak to senior state BJP leaders. The party leadership has not made any official communication regarding 

the development in Uttarakhand except Gautam saying that Singh and he had gone there to plan events to mark the state government’s fourth 

anniversary. While there were unconfirmed reports of the CM calling MLAs and mayors close to him to Delhi, the BJP state president was not available for comments despite repeated attempts.

It is pertinent to mention here that a section of state leaders is reportedly miffed with Rawat’s leadership and are of the view that the party’s electoral prospects under him  may not be very bright. However, officially the BJP has denied this.

Tuesday, 09 March 2021 | PNS | Dehradun

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