Tirath Singh Rawat: News

Tirath Singh Rawat is a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician, Lok Sabha Member of Parliament, and former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. He was a student leader in his days at the Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, becoming the president of its student union in 1992. An RSS Pracharak in his former years, he also held leadership positions in the ABVP. Rawat was a part of the movement demanding statehood for Uttarakhand. When the state did become a reality, he served as its first Education Minister from 2000 to 2002. He was elected to the Uttarakhand State Assembly from Chaubattakhal in 2012 and became the president of BJP’s state unit in 2013. After his Assembly term expired in 2017, Rawat successfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from the Garhwal constituency. In 2021, he replaced Trivendra Singh Rawat to become the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. However, due to his inability to become a member of the State Assembly within the prescribed six-month period, Rawat had to resign as CM within a few months of taking the oath.