Pushkar Singh Dhami

Pushkar Singh Dhami is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. He was born on 16 September 1975 in Tundi village, Pithoragarh district, and studied at the University of Lucknow, where he took an LLB in 2002.

Dhami represented Khatima in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from 2012. He became Chief Minister on 4 July 2021, succeeding Tirath Singh Rawat. Although he lost his Khatima seat in the 2022 election, the BJP kept power and he began a second tenure as Chief Minister on 23 March 2022. He won the Champawat seat in a by-election on 3 June 2022 and represents it now. Wikipedia describes him as the state’s longest-serving Chief Minister and the only one to hold a second consecutive term. His official profile lists 17 portfolios, including Finance, Home and Revenue. Earlier, he was state president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the BJP’s youth wing, until 2008.

Dhami is in the news because on 10 November 2026 he said at an event in Rishikesh that the BJP will win a full majority for a third consecutive term in the 2027 Assembly election, as the state Congress launched a signature campaign against his government.

Sources: Wikipedia: Pushkar Singh Dhami, Office of the Chief Minister, Government of Uttarakhand: About the Chief Minister