Uttarakhand CM Vijay Bahuguna to quit today

January 31, 2014 08:54

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna may tender his resignation on Friday.

Union Minister Harish Rawat and state minister Pritam Singh are emerging as the frontrunners for the top job in the hill state.

The decision to replace Bahuguna was taken at a meeting Congress chief Sonia Gandhi had with senior party leaders on Thursday.

Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and AICC general secretaries Janardan Dwivedi and Ambika Soni, who is in charge of party affairs in the state, are being sent there as central observers for the changeover, PTI quoted highly-placed Congress sources as saying.

Rawat and Pritam Singh, who is Food and Civil Supplies Minister in the Bahuguna Cabinet, are the frontrunners, they said.

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