23 May 2009
Uttarakhand’s Chief Minister B.C. Khanduri who had been facing the possibility of being replaced, has managed a survival.
BJP’s Parliamentary board meeting held today decided that B.C. Khanduri will continue as the CM of Uttarakhand.
Sources in the BJP told The Indian Express,” The two member committee that had come to take the views of the legislators on the issue of Khanduri’s survival, just read their report at the meeting of the Central Parliamentary Board of the party held in Delhi on Saturday evening. There was no discussion on his replacement. This simply means that he continues.”
It is learnt that health minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and irrigation minister Matbar Singh Kandari along with three other legislators had rushed to Delhi on Saturday morning to further lobby for Khanduri.
The issue that had started as an exercise to locate a possible successor of Khanduri following the latter taking the moral responsibility for the party’s dismal performance in the Lok Sabha polls and asking the Central Parliamentary Board to take a decision on his future, had gradually turned into a power struggle based on supportive numbers of the legislators between the two rival groups led by Bhagat Singh Koshiyari and Khanduri.
News Source: Indian Express
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