Uttarakhand Governor Gurmeet Singh administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami for a second term in Dehradun on March 23.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Pushkar Singh Dhami on taking oath as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
- Along with Mr. Dhami, 8 of his cabinet colleagues were also administered oath by the Governor.
- Mr. Dhami is the 12th Chief Minister of the state.
- This is the first time in the 22-year-old history of the state that a party has come back to power.
- The BJP had won 47 of the 60 assembly seats in the state, becoming the first party ever in Uttarakhand’s 22-year-old history to return to power in consecutive elections.
- But Dhami failed to retain his own Khatima seat that he had been winning since 2012.
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