Pushkar Singh Dhami takes oath as Uttarakhand CM
Dehradun, March 23: BJP leader Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday took oath as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and other BJP leaders, including Yogi Adityanath and Pramod Sawant, also attended the swearing-in ceremony in Dehradun. Pushkar singh Dhami will take over the reins of Uttarakhand for the second time in a row.
Dhami had lost to Congress candidate Bhuwan Chandra Kapri from Khatima by a margin of 6,579 votes in the Uttarakhand elections. He got a total of 41,598 votes with a vote share of 44.8 per cent against Kapri who got 48,177 with 51.89 per cent votes. Dhami had won twice from the seat.
The son of an ex-serviceman, Dhami was born in 1975 in Kanalichhina village in Pithoragarh district. He holds a law degree and worked as a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) volunteer. He also had been a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
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Dhami served as the president of BJP Yuva Morcha in Uttarakhand twice between 2002 and 2008. He is believed to be a protégé of former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Bhagat Singh Koshyari.
Pushkar Singh Dhami belongs to the Kumaon region. The last two chief ministers before him were from the Garhwal region. The BJP won the popular mandate for the second consecutive term in Uttarakhand and won 47 seats in the 70-member Assembly.
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Dhami had lost to Congress candidate Bhuwan Chandra Kapri from Khatima by a margin of 6,579 votes in the Uttarakhand elections. He got a total of 41,598 votes with a vote share of 44.8 per cent against Kapri who got 48,177 with 51.89 per cent votes. Dhami had won twice from the seat.
