Amidst disquiet, Uttarakhand CM meets Nadda

New Delhi, Mar 09: Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat late on Monday met with Bharatiya Janata Party president J P Nadda at the latter's residence amidst speculation of a leadership change.

Uttarakhand BJP MLA Munna Singh Chauhan said that a wrong impression is being given about unhappiness over Rawat as Chief Minister, according to news agency ANI.
"Trivendra Singh Rawat continues to be the Chief Minister as we speak," Chauhan said adding that the Chief Minister will return to Dehradun on Tuesday.

He also refuted reports about a BJP legislature party meeting to be held on Tuesday at Chief Minister Residence in Dehradun. "No official meeting of legislature party meet has been called," Chauhan said.

Earlier in the day, Union Minister Amit Shah, BJP chief J P Nadda and B L Santhosh attended a meeting to discuss the current situation in the state in the Parliament building, ANI reported.

The BJP general secretary in-charge of Uttarakhand, Dushyant Kumar Gautam and Raman Singh sent to Dehradun on Saturday to access the situation in the state have submitted their report to the BJP's high command on Monday, according to sources.

Last week, BJP Uttarakhand held an emergency core group meeting which was attended by observer Raman Singh, Dushyant Gautam, Trivendra Singh Rawat, Ajay Bhatt, Naresh Bansal, Mala Rajya Laxmi and others.

There are speculations about the leadership change in Uttarakhand as several ministers and around twenty MLAs have complained against the working style of Rawat.

According to sources, several MLAs and some ministers complained about the Chief Minister to the party leadership. Later, the BJP central high command sent Raman Singh as party observer for the emergency core group meeting, which was attended by Dushyant Gautam, general secretary in-charge of Uttarakhand BJP.

After the core group meeting party, Raman Singh and Dushyant Gautam submitted their report, the party high command summoned Trivendra Singh Rawat to Delhi, the ANI report also said.