Harish Rawat  

Harish Rawat is an Indian politician. He is a senior leader of the Indian National Congress party. He served as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2014 to 2017.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has taken up a massive membership drive that will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi.Former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat announced his resignation as the Congress general secretary in-charge of Assam.For the top stories of the day, watch MyNation in 100 seconds. 
 

Harish Rawat said as the in-charge of party affairs in Assam, he was responsible for the below-par performance of the Congress in the parliamentary polls and thus, had decided to step down from the post.

While the Narendra Modi's BJP government swept the nation this Lok Sabha election, several former chief ministers faced the brunt of the saffron wave

The rise of Rawat is being seen as a major threat to Uttarakhand Congress chief, Preetam Singh, who has been working hard to regain the lost ground in the state