{"id":331210,"date":"2021-03-10T11:49:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T11:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=331210"},"modified":"2021-03-10T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T11:49:53","slug":"tirath-singh-rawat-becomes-new-uttarakhand-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/tirath-singh-rawat-becomes-new-uttarakhand-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Tirath Singh Rawat becomes new Uttarakhand CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331211\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tirath-singh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/tirath-singh.jpg 620w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/tirath-singh-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/tirath-singh-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/tirath-singh-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/tirath-singh-561x420.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Replacing Trivendra Singh Rawat, Tirath Singh Rawat has been sworn-in as the new chief minister of Uttarakhand.<\/p>\n<p>The oath of office was administered on Rawat by Uttarakhand Governor Baby Rani Maurya at a simple ceremony held at the Raj Bhawan here in the presence of a host of dignitaries.<\/p>\n<p>Rawat alone was sworn-in on Wednesday, which means the members of his Cabinet will be sworn-in later.<\/p>\n<p>Rawat is currently the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Uttarakhand&#8221;s Pauri Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency as well as a national secretary of the party.<\/p>\n<p>He headed the Uttarakhand BJP unit from 2013-15.<\/p>\n<p>Known as a simple and down-to-earth leader, Tirath Singh Rawat takes over the rein of power in Uttarakhand at a time when the BJP is preparing for the state Assembly polls due early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replacing Trivendra Singh Rawat, Tirath Singh Rawat has been sworn-in as the new chief minister of Uttarakhand. The oath of office was administered on Rawat by Uttarakhand Governor Baby Rani Maurya at a simple ceremony held at the Raj Bhawan here in the presence of a host of dignitaries. Rawat alone was sworn-in on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":331211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2014],"tags":[1380,13964,922],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331213,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331210\/revisions\/331213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/331211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}