Dehradun: Former RSS pracharak and senior BJP leader Trivendra Singh Rawat was sworn-in as Uttarakhand Chief Minister in a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief Amit Shah and other senior leaders on Saturday.
Rawat was sworn in as the hill state’s ninth chief minister by Governor KK Paul at Parade Grounds here. Apart from Modi and Shah, Union ministers Rajnath Singh, JP Nadda and Uma Bharti attended the ceremony. Former chief minister Harish Rawat was also present.
Nine ministers, including former Congress minister Harak Singh Rawat, were also sworn in.
Satpal Maharaj, Harak Singh Rawat, Madan Kaushik, Arvind Pandey, Subodh Uniyal, Yashpal Arya and Prakash Pant have been made Cabinet ministers. Rekha Arya and Dhan Singh Rawat took oath as ministers of state.
Though average in studies, Rawat evinced keen interest in socio-cultural work at an early age, a fact which explains his joining the RSS aged 19 years.
Six years later, he was appointed RSS pracharak for Dehradun city.
Considered a man rooted in rural traditions, Rawat loves hill delicacies and keeps visiting his village from time to time to relish those, especially during winter when he loves to eat millet (Manduwa) rotis, his elder brother Veerendra says.
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