Pushkar Singh Dhami (born 16 September 1975) is an Indian politician and a member of the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

, serving as the 10th and the current

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since 2021. He represents the Champawat Assembly constituency in the

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since 2022 and previously from

Khatima Khatima is a city and a municipal board in Udham Singh Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Khatima is located at . It has an average elevation of 299 metres (980 feet). Demographics As of 2011 Indian Census, Khatima had a ...

from 2012 to 2022. He lost his seat in 2022 elections, but was re-elected as Chief Minister by BJP MLAs. He is the only Chief Minister of the state to assume a second consecutive term as CM, since its creation.

Personal life and career

Pushkar Singh Dhami was born in a Kumaoni

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family at Tundi village of

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. His ancestral village is Harkhola,

Pithoragarh Pithoragarh ( Kumaoni: ''Pithor'garh'') is a Himalayan town with a Municipal corporation in Pithoragarh district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the largest hill town in Uttarakhand. Etymology "The district is named after its hea ...

district in the state of

. His family moved to Tundi village where he studied until 5th standard after that they moved to Nagla Tarai Bhabar, Khatima. His father was in the army and retired as a

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. He graduated from

Lucknow University University of Lucknow (informally known as Lucknow University, and LU) is one of the oldest public state university based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. LU's main campus is located at Badshah Bagh, University Road area of the city with a second ...

in Human Resource Management & Industrial Relations and pursued

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from

University of Lucknow University of Lucknow (informally known as Lucknow University, and LU) is one of the oldest public state university based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. LU's main campus is located at Badshah Bagh, University Road area of the city with a second ...

. He has also served as an adviser to

Bhagat Singh Koshiyari Bhagat Singh Koshyari (born 17 June 1942) is an Indian politician who served as the 22nd governor of Maharashtra from 2019 to 2023. An RSS veteran, Koshyari served as National Vice-President of BJP and party's 3rd State president for Uttarakha ...

while Koshiyari was serving as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand in 2001.

Political career

Dhami started his political career in the year 1990 with

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, the student wing of the

.Pushkar Singh Dhami worked as a political adviser to former CM

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. He also served as the state president of the

Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) (translation: Indian People's Youth Front) is the youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), one of the two major political parties in India, and formerly the youth wing of the dissolved Janata Party ...

until 2008. During this time, he was credited with asserting the state government to reserve 70% of opportunities for the local youth in industries of the state. On 2021, in political crisis Dhami to be considered as the deputy chief minister.

Chief Minister in 2021

On 3 July 2021, he was sworn in as the 10th

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, after the resignation of

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due to political crisis regarding his legitimacy to hold the post and assumed office on 4 July 2021. He became the youngest Chief Minister of

at the age of 45.

Vidhan Sabha election, 2022

Pushkar Singh Dhami, the Current chief minister and a CM face, lost the 2021 legislative election against congress candidate,

Bhuwan Chandra Kapri Bhuwan Chandra Kapri is an Indian politician and a member of Indian National Congress, who represents Khatima constituency. On 10 April 2022, Bhuwan Chandra Kapri was elected as the Deputy Leader of Congress Legislative Party (CLP) in the Uttara ...

from

constituency of

Uttarakhand legislative assembly The Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, also known as the Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha, is a unicameral governing and law making body of Uttarakhand, one of the 28 States and union territories of India, states of India. It is seated at Dehradun, the w ...

. He was re-elected for the position of Chief Minister of Uttarakhand on 21 March 2022. On 3 June 2022 he successfully won the Champawat Assembly bypoll, which was allowed by the resignation of incumbent Kailash Chandra Gahtori.

Positions held

Elections contested

References

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