Dehradun, 18 Sep 2007
Ending months of speculation, Bachi Singh Rawat, a four time MP from Almora, is all set to become Uttarakhand’s new BJP president.
As the deadline for filing of nominations expired this evening, Rawat was the only candidate whose papers were received by Tirath Singh, the returning officer for the party poll.
A formal announcement on Rawat’s election will be made tomorrow, state BJP spokesman Devendra Bhasin said.
Rawat was facing a bitter contest from Ajay Bhatt, the state BJP general secretary, initially. But at the eleventh hour, Rawat emerged as the consensus candidate with the apparent backing of the Chief Minister B.C. Khanduri, party sources said.
Khanduri, along with the outgoing BJP president B.S. Koshiyari and former chief minister Nityanand Swami, was among several senior leaders present when Rawat filed his nomination papers.
Rawat was the Union minister of state for science and technology in the NDA government at the Centre.
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