Vijay Rupani Becomes Fourth BJP Leader to Resign from CM Post in Recent Weeks. Check Other Two
Vijay Rupani on Saturday resigned from the post of Gujarat Chief Minister, over a year before the state goes to polls. Elections are scheduled in December 2022 to elect 182 members of the Gujarat Assembly. The 65-year-old BJP leader was sworn in as chief minister for the second time in December 2017.
“I have resigned as chief minister of Gujarat. I was given the opportunity to serve the state for five years. I will further do whatever is asked by my party,” Rupani told reporters after meeting Governor Acharya Devvrat and submitting his resignation letter.
In recent months, three Chief Ministers from two BJP-led states also resigned from the post which caused a major political crisis in the party. Here is about them:
KARNATAKA
BJP leader BS Yediyurappa resigned as Karnataka Chief Minister on July 26, the day his government completed two years in office. A day later, the party elected Basavaraj S Bommai as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka.
BJP observer for Karnataka and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had announced that Basavaraj S Bommai will be the next Chief Minister of Karnataka.
The 61-year-old leader is the son of former Karnataka CM SR Bommai.
UTTARAKHAND
Barely four months after taking charge as the head of the state, Tirath Singh Rawat submitted his resignation from the Uttarakhand Chief Minister post on July 2. In a surprise move, he reached the Governor House around 11 pm and submitted his resignation papers.
Rawat’s sudden but expected move pushed the state into a major political crisis deeper than the one it witnessed just months ago. In March this year, following dissent against former chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, Tirath Singh Rawat, an MP at the time, was sworn in as Chief Minister.
Later, Pushkar Singh Dhami was announced to be the 11th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
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