PM Modi Chairs Meeting Over Govt Formation in UP, Goa, U’Khand; Shah, Nadda Present

PM Modi Chairs Meeting Over Govt Formation in UP, Goa, U'Khand; Shah, Nadda Present

PM Modi is chairing a meeting over government formation in UP, Uttarakhand and Goa. (PTI Photo)

BJP national general secretary (organisation) BL Santosh and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh are also present at the meeting

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Last Updated:March 20, 2022, 20:10 IST
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is chairing a meeting at his official residence, 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, in New Delhi on Sunday over government formation in Uttar Pradesh, Goa and Uttarakhand. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, party national general secretary (organisation) BL Santosh, national president JP Nadda are in attendance, sources said.

While Yogi Adityanath will take oath as the CM of Uttar Pradesh for a second term on March 25, there's still no word yet on the composition of his cabinet. The BJP is now in the process of making last-minute tweaks to the list of cabinet and council of ministers.

The CM face in Uttarkhand is, however, still under suspense. The BJP has scheduled a meeting of the party legislature in Dehradun on Monday evening where the CM name will be announced. Central observers Rajnath Singh and Meenakshi Lekhi will reach the Uttarakhand capital on Monday and announce the name of the new legislative party leader. Pro-tem speaker Banishar Bhagat will take the oath at Raj Bhavan. Later, Bhagat will administer the oath to the newly elected members at the Vidhan Sabha.

Even as the suspense on the name of the CM continues, Uttarakhand BJP leaders confirmed the newly elected chief minister will take the oath with 11 cabinet ministers at the city's Parade Ground at 11 am on March 23. This is perhaps the first time when the BJP is faced with a situation where a sitting CM has lost an election but the party has returned to power for the straight second term with a thumping majority.

In Goa, caretaker Chief Minister Pramod Sawant is likely to again head the new government, but he is officially yet to be announced as the CM face. Sources said that Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, BJP's central observer for Goa, will reach Panaji at around 1.30 pm tomorrow and the BJP Legislative Party meeting will be held at 4 pm.

On Friday while speaking to reporters, Goa's former Art and Culture Minister Govind Gaude and Sanguem BJP MLA Subhash Phaldesai had said that Sawant would lead the new dispensation and that a formal announcement would be made soon. Speculation has been rife about two camps in the BJP — one led by Sawant and the other by his former Health Minister Vishwajit Rane — over the issue of Chief Ministership. Both Rane and Sawant have, however, denied any such skirmishes.

The BJP earlier on Sunday announced N Biren Singh as the CM face of Manipur after he was unanimously elected as the Manipur BJP Legislative Party leader. Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Union law and justice minister Kiren Rijiju were in Imphal today as central observers to announce the CM name.

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