Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat resigns, wants namesake at helm

In a day of dramatic developments, Uttarakhand Chief Minister (CM) Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced it had convened a meeting of the legislature party on Wednesday morning to elect a new CM. While Rawat would like his man, Dhan Singh Rawat, to succeed him, there are a host of candidates for the job, including former CM and Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, party leader Anil Baluni, state Cabinet minister Satpal Maharaj, Uttarakhand BJP General Secretary Suresh Bhatt, and Nainital-Udham Singh Nagar Member of Parliament (MP) Ajay Bhatt, as senior leaders say “all options