Dehradun: Newly-elected Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs are scheduled to meet on Friday at 3 pm and elect the leader of the BJP legislature party.
Meanwhile, reports suggest that BJP leader Trivendra Singh Rawat is the front-runner in race to be the next chief minister of the state.. Notably, Rawat has a strong RSS background.
State BJP chief Ajay Bhatt has confirmed that the oath-taking ceremony for the new ministers has been fixed for 3 pm on March 18 (Saturday).
Hectic preparations are underway here for the swearing-in of the new government.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah are likely to attend the swearing-in event.
BJP president Amit Shah has named two central observers - Saroj Pandey and Narendra Tomar, to oversee the election of the new legislature party leader.
BJP recorded a landslide victory winning 56 of the 70 Uttarakhand Assembly seats.
