Tirath Singh Rawat resigns as Uttarakhand CM months after taking oath

Barely four months after taking oath as Uttarakhand's new chief minister, Tirath Singh Rawat on Friday offered to resign from his post. Tirath Rawat is in Dehradun where he met Governor Baby Rani Maurya and submitted his resignation.
The Bharatiya Janata Party legislature party meeting is scheduled to be held at 3 pm today at the party headquarters in Uttarakhand where the BJP MLAs will meet to pick a new leader.