Tirath Singh Rawat is an Indian politician who became the 9th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand in March 2021. He is also a Lok Sabha member from the Garhwal constituency in Uttarakhand.
Wiki/Biography
Tirath Singh Rawat was born on Thursday, April 9, 1964 (59 years old in 2023) in Sinro village in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand. His star sign is Aries. In 1992, he obtained a master’s degree in sociology from Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar. He also has a postgraduate diploma in journalism.
appearance
Height (approximate): 5′ 10″
Hair color: gray and white
Eye color: Black
Family and caste
Rawat is a Hindu.
Parents and siblings
His father’s name is Kalam Singh Rawat and mother’s name is Gaura Devi.
Wife and children
His wife Dr. Rashmi Tyagi Rawat is a teacher.
Tirath Singh Rawat and his wife Rashmi Tyagi on their wedding day on December 9, 1998
Rashmi is a well-educated lady with a PhD in Psychology from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut. Like Tirath, she also joined the All India Students’ Union (ABVP) during college and contested the election for the president of Chaudhary Charan Singh University in 1994. In her youth, she also participated in various beauty pageants and won the titles of Miss RG and Miss Meerut.
Tirath Singh Rawat and his wife Rashmi Tyagi
Tilas and Rashmi had a daughter named Lokanksha Rawat.
Tirath Singh Rawat and his daughter Lokanksha Rawat
Profession
Student Politics
During his college years, Rawat joined the ABVP, the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, and became active in student politics. During his involvement in student politics, he became the organizing secretary of the Uttarakhand chapter of the ABVP and was later elected as the national secretary of the ABVP. In 1992, he was also elected president of the Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University Student Union.
Mainstream politics
In 1997, Rawat was elected as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Prior to this, he served as the vice-president of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh. From 2000 to 2002, he served as the first education minister of Uttarakhand. In 2007, he was appointed as the state secretary of the BJP Uttarakhand. In 2012, he contested the legislative elections for the first time and was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the Chaubattakhal constituency. In 2013, he was appointed as the BJP Uttarakhand Governor. In 2019, he contested the Lok Sabha elections for the first time and was subsequently elected as the MP from the Garhwal constituency (Lok Sabha). In March 2021, Tirath Singh Rawat was appointed as the ninth Chief Minister of Uttarakhand after the former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Trivendra Singh Rawat, tendered his resignation a year in advance.
On March 10, 2021, Tirath Singh Rawat was sworn in as the ninth Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
On July 2, 2021, he resigned as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
net worth
According to the election affidavit filed by Tirath Singh Rawat before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, his net worth is Rs 11.5 crore.
dispute
- In March 2021, days after taking over as Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Tirath Singh made a controversial speech against the practice of women wearing “ripped jeans”. He made the allegedly discriminatory remarks against women at a seminar organised by the Uttarakhand State Commission for Protection of Child Rights in Dehradun. Recalling an anecdote, Tirath said he was shocked to see a woman running an NGO wearing a pair of ripped jeans and was worried about the precedent she would set for the society. After the speech went viral, Tirath had to face the wrath of netizens and opposition leaders.
- A few days ago, Tirat Singh caused a controversy by making a statement about women wearing ripped jeans. A few days later, he caused another controversy by saying that if people want more food rations, they should have more children. He said:
Those who have ten children get fifty kilos, those who have twenty get one quintal. Those who have two children get ten kilos. People build shops and find buyers. Who is to blame? Now you are jealous. When you had time, you only had two children. Why didn’t you have twenty?”
In his speech, he also misquoted an important historical fact, confusing Britain and the United States. He said,
India is doing a better job in handling the pandemic compared to other countries. On the other hand, the US, which enslaved us for 200 years and ruled the entire world, is struggling to control the virus”
Facts/Trivia
- From 1983 to 1988, he served as pracharak (promoter) of the Rashtriya Swayansevak Sangh.
This is a photo from around 1987 when Atal Bihari Vajpayee came to Garhwal for a visit and Tirath (far right), then an RSS propagandist, was supervising the visit
- He was reportedly arrested during the Ram Temple movement in the early 1990s and jailed for two months.
- He actively participated in the Uttarakhand formation movement, demanding the separation of Uttarakhand from Uttar Pradesh. In 2000, Uttarakhand was established as a state.
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