Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat tendered his resignation on Friday ahead of the two key by-polls in the state – Gangotri and Haldwani.

Rawat currently is a Lok Sabha MP from Garhwal constituency of the Himalayan state, and as per the Constitution of India, one has to be a member of the state Assembly to be a CM.

He assumed the office of the Chief Minister on March 10 this year after Trivendra Singh Rawat fell out of favour from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s high command in Delhi.

Rawat met BJP president JP Nadda on Friday in New Delhi amid increasing buzz that the saffron party could go for a change in the state leadership once again as the prospects of the Election Commission of India conducting the bypolls anytime soon looks uncertain