Uttarakhand: Former RSS leader Trivendra Singh Rawat to take over as CM today

A staunch nationalist and former RSS man Trivendra Singh Rawat will today take over as the chief minister of Uttarakhand as he was unanimously elected as BJP's legislature party leader by party MLAs in Dehradun on Friday.

The swearing-in ceremony will be attended by PM Narendra Modi, the BJP president and other important central ministers including Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

Having defeated Congress by bagging almost 4/5th majority in the 70-member house, the BJP chose the former RSS man as its chief ministerial candidate who is party in-charge for Jharkhand and helped the saffron party bag power there in the last elections.