Ajay Tamata out. Dr. Nishank to be new minister from Uttarakhand in the union cabinet

The former chief minister of Uttarakhand Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank will be the new entrant in the NDA government likely to be sworn in today evening at Rashtrapati Bhawan alongwith with other ministers.

However, it remains to be seen whether he gets the full fledged cabinet portfolio or the state minister rank.

It it learnt that he will be the only minister being sworn in, in the 2nd NDA council of ministers.

According to Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank he got a telephonic communication to be present in the swearing in ceremony for oath taking.

This means that the former union minister of state for textiles from Almora Ajay Tamta would not repeat this time.

However, Ajay Tamata has won by three lakh votes defeating his nearest Congress rival n siting Rajya Sabha MP Pradeep Tamata of the Congress Party whereas Dr. Nishank has won by 2.5 lakh vote margin, lowest amongst all the other 4 MPs of BJP from Uttarakhand. Tamta is from Dalit catagory and is a humble politician quite popular in his constituency.

Former Uttarakhand chief minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has been the MLA several times n is a two term MP from Haridwar.

He is a prolific writer and a poet too, having won several awards for his books n poetries. He started his political career in 1991 n had for the first time defeated the then politucal heavy weight n H. N. Bahuguna protege and then education minister of Uttar Pradesh Dr. Shivanand Nautiyal. He was the state CM in 2008.

By appointing Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank,the prime minister has maintained caste balance in Uttarakhand as the incumbent state CM Trivendra Singh Rawat is a Thakur. Moreover, Dr. Nishank is an old n dedicated RSSite as well. There were speculations abot the stae BJP president Ajay Bhatt’s inclusiin in the uniin cabinet as he’d defeated Congress stalwart Harish Rawat from Nainital with a heavy margin of more than three lakh votes n the BJP had won with a historic 57 seats in Uttarakhand in 2017 under his tenure as state chief n this time