Shah, Nadda meet Uttarakhand leaders, discuss CM name

New Delhi, March 20 : BJP President JP Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday met leaders from Uttarakhand ahead of a meeting of the state legislature party. The BJP leaders meet as suspense continues on who will lead the BJP in Uttarakhand, where it came back to power, becoming the first party to retain power in the state. Care taker Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, former chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, Uttarakhand BJP Chief Madan Kaushik, former on minister Ramesh Pokhriyal were among the leaders who attended the meeting. Dhami, who was the Uttarakhand CM when the state went to polls, lost his Khatima seat to Congress candidate Bhuwan Kapri. Several MLAs have supported Dhami to be picked as the chief minister again, and also offered to resign from their seats to enable him to fight and win. Rajnath Singh and Meenakshi Lekhi, who are central observers for selecting the leader of the legislature party in the state, are likely to visit Dehradun on March 21. The observers were earlier scheduled to visit Uttarakhand on March 20. BJP retained power in Uttarakhand winning 47 seats, getting around 44 percent of the vote share. The Congress got around 37 percent votes, and won 19 seats. In 2017, Congress had won 11 seats, and got around 33 percent votes while BJP’s vote share was around 46 percent in 2017, AO ACL1315

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