BJP leader Uttarakhand CM-designate Pushkar Singh Dhami speaks during a press conference in Dehradun
Highlights
- Pushkar Singh Dhami will take oath as Chief Minister of Uttarakhand on Wednesday at 2:30 PM
- This will be Pushkar Singh Dhami's second term as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
- Dhami had lost from Khatima, a seat he had been winning since the 2012 Assembly polls
Pushkar Singh Dhami will be sworn-in as Uttarakhand Chief Minister on Wednesday at a grand ceremony to be held at the Parade Ground here in the presence of BJP top brass, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The ceremony, where the chief minister and his cabinet colleagues will take an oath, is scheduled to be held at 2.30 pm, the state BJP's media in-charge Manveer Singh Chauhan said.
Apart from Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP president JP Nadda, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Himachal Pradesh counterpart Jai Ram Thakur will attend the ceremony, he said.
The parade ground is being spruced up for the grand swearing-in ceremony that corresponds to the party's consecutive win in Uttarakhand, Chauhan said.
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