Uttarakhand Minister Harak Singh Rawat was sacked from his post and removed from the BJP on Sunday night, prompting him to say that “if Congress wasn’t winning earlier, it was definitely winning now” and that he will “now initiate talks” with the Congress. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said Mr. Rawat was trying to exert pressure on the BJP to …
DEHRADUN: Less than a month before the assembly elections, Uttarakhand minister Harak Singh Rawat was expelled from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party late on Sunday amid reports that he was planning to return to the Opposition Congress, which he quit in 2016. Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said the demand for two tickets was totally against the BJP’s principle of …
As the state inches closer towards the much-awaited Assembly elections, the majority of the opinion polls have predicted that the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to retain power this year’s tight electoral contest in the hilly state of Uttarakhand. In such a situation, CM Tirath Singh Rawat’s controversial remark over ‘ripped jeans’ had added salt to BJP’s injuries in …
A senior minister in Trivendra Singh Rawat cabinet said that he doesn’t know “even the ABCD of his ministry” as bureaucrats keep him in dark about the goings on. In the letter to the additional chief secretary, Harak Singh said that officials of his ministry did not provide him the details of the skills training programmes and that of the …
