Summary:
Dehradun, Mar 21 (PTI) The BJP legislative party meeting to elect the new chief minister of Uttarakhand began on Monday evening at the party"s office on Balbir Road here.
BJP"s central observers for Uttarakhand Rajnath Singh, Meenakshi Lekhi and the party"s poll incharge for the state, Pralhad Joshi, are at the meeting, which began around 5 pm.
Before the meeting with newly elected MLAs began here, the party leaders from Delhi stopped at a hotel in the city to confabulate with senior state leaders, including caretaker CM Pushkar Singh Dhami and former Union minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank.
Rajnath and other central party leaders were received at the hotel by Dhami, Satpal Maharaj, Nishank and others.
The meeting will elect the leader of the BJP legislative party in Uttarakhand, ending the 11-day suspense over who will become the CM of the state.
Dhami under whose leadership the BJP had contested the February 14 Assembly polls in Uttarakhand is the frontrunner among around half a dozen names doing the rounds.