Tirath Singh Rawat will take over as the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, after Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned from the CM’s post on Tuesday.

56-year-old Tirath Singh Rawat is a BJP MP from the Pauri constituency. He was the chief of the party in Uttarakhand in 2013-15 and also an MLA from the state in the past.

He will be sworn 4pm today at Raj Bhavan.

In the early days of his political career, Rawat was part of the Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata YuvaMorcha, the BJP’s youth wing, where he served as the state vice-president for some time before being elected to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council in 1997.

A close aide of general BC Khanduri, Teerath Singh Rawat is an old RSS and ABVP hand who has been in BJP for over three decades.

When the state of Uttarakhand was formed in 2000, Tirath Singh Rawat became its first education minister.

He was elected in 2012 as an MLA from the Chaubatakhal assembly constituency in his birthplace of Pauri Garhwal. He continued to serve as the Chaubatakhal MLA till 2017.

In 2019, Tirath Singh Rawat became an MP by defeating his rival Manish Khanduri by over 3.50 lakh votes from the Garhwal Lok Sabha seat.