BJP's central observers for Uttarakhand, Rajnath Singh and Meenakshi Lekhi and the State’s poll affairs in-charge Pralhad Joshi reached Dehradun on March 21 (afternoon) to attend a meeting of the party's newly-elected MLAs to decide the State's next Chief Minister.
The meeting which is slated to begin at 5 p.m. will end 11 days of suspense over who would be the next Chief Minister. Soon after they arrived at Dehradun's Jollygrant Airport, the BJP's central leaders left for the city where newly elected party legislators have begun to arrive at the party office on Balbir Road to deliberate on the issue of the next Chief Minister. Pushkar Singh Dhami, under whose leadership the BJP had contested the February 14 Assembly polls in Uttarakhand, is the front-runner among around half a dozen names doing the rounds.
