Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Minister of State for External Affairs Meenakshi Lekhi will be visiting Dehradun on Monday for the BJP Legislature Party meeting where the Chief Minister’s name will be declared, said the party’s state media in-charge Manveer Chauhan.
Earlier on Sunday, Uttarakhand BJP chief Madan Kaushik said that all newly elected members of the Legislative Assembly will take oath in the Vidhan Sabha on Monday. Kaushik had also said that the name for Uttarakhand Chief Minister will be decided after Sunday’s Legislative Party meeting.
“All newly elected members of the Legislative Assembly will take oath at 11 am in Vidhan Sabha, tomorrow,” he had said.
“The meeting of Legislative Party will be held in the evening. Thereafter, the Chief Minister’s name will be announced,” Kaushik had said.
Earlier on Sunday, Pushkar Singh Dhami, Kaushik, and former Union Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank had met Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his residence in the national capital to discuss government formation.
BJP President J.P. Nadda and party leaders B.L. Santhosh and Uttarakhand minister Satpal Maharaj were also present at Shah’s residence.
Meanwhile, Dhami had said that the procedure for government formation was underway and the BJP central leadership would take a decision on the next leader of the legislature party in the state.
“The procedure for government formation is underway…the BJP central leadership will take a decision (on CM face),” had said Dhami, at Uttarakhand Bhawan in Delhi.
Notably, BJP MLA and former minister Rekha Arya have supported Dhami as the next Chief Minister.
Several MLAs, including Ganesh Joshi and Arvind Pandey, have given their consent for the name of Dhami as the leader of the legislature party.
Till now six MLAs of the Bharatiya Janata Party have announced their willingness to vacate their Assembly seats to help Dhami get elected to the House. Dhami had lost to Congress candidate Bhuwan Chandra Kapri by a margin of 6,579 votes.
The BJP won the popular mandate for the second consecutive term in Uttarakhand, bagging 47 seats in the 70-member Assembly.
BJP OBSERVERS TO VISIT GOA
Goa’s caretaker Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Sunday said that the decision about the swearing-in ceremony will be taken in the Legislature Party meeting that will take place on Monday evening.
He said that the Bharatiya Janata Party observers will visit Goa on Monday for the Legislature Party meeting. “I went to Delhi yesterday, BJP observers will be coming here tomorrow for the Legislature Party meeting. The decision about the swearing-in ceremony will also be taken in the evening tomorrow,” Sawant said.
BJP will stake claim and approach Governor to form the next government tomorrow after the legislative party meeting, said Sawant.