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The change of guard came a day after Tirat Singh Rawat resigned from the post on Friday late evening

Tirath Singh Rawat had replaced Trivendra Singh Rawat on March 10 after he was similarly asked by the party to step down.

"Kumbh is at the bank of the River Ganga. Maa Ganga's blessings are there in the flow. So, there should be no corona," added the chief minister.

The high command culture, the bane of the Congress, is proving to be a stifling factor in the saffron party

Tirath Singh Rawat was the state BJP president from 2013-2015 and is currently the party's national secretary.

Rawat submitted his resignation to Governor Baby Rani Maurya at Raj Bhawan after his arrival from Delhi, where he met the party's central leadership.

Mahant Hari Giri, general secretary of ABAP and chief patron of Juna Akhara, said that this decision has been taken in view of the present situation in terms of declining number of corona cases