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 {{Infobox officeholder
 | name                = Trivendra Singh Rawat
-| office              = 8th [[List of Chief Ministers of Uttarakhand|Chief Minister of Uttarakhand]]
+| office              = [[List of Chief Ministers of Uttarakhand|Chief Minister of Uttarakhand]]
 | image               = The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri Trivendra Singh Rawat.jpg
 | caption             =
 | predecessor         = [[Harish Rawat]]
-| successor           = [[Tirath Singh Rawat]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Singh |first1=Kautilya |title=Tirath Singh Rawat: BJP's Tirath Singh Rawat to be new Uttarakhand chief minister |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bjps-tirath-singh-rawat-to-be-new-uttarakhand-chief-minister/articleshow/81425626.cms |access-date=10 March 2021 |work=The Times of India |date=10 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
+| successor           = [[Tirath Singh Rawat]]
-| office2             = [[Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly|Member of the Uttarakhand Assembly]]
+| office1             = [[Cabinet Minister]]<br/>[[Government of Uttarakhand]]
+| term_start1         = 27 March 2007
+| term_end1           = 13 March 2012
+| 1blankname1         = {{centre|Ministry}}
+| 1namedata1          = {{centre|'''Term'''}}
+| 2blankname1         = Minister of Agriculture
+| 2namedata1          = 27 March 2007 - 13 March 2012
+| 3blankname1         = Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairy Farming & Fisheries
+| 3namedata1          = 27 March 2007 - 13 March 2012
+| office2             = Member of [[Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly]]
 | constituency2       = [[Doiwala (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Doiwala]]
 | constituency3       = [[Doiwala (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Doiwala]]
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 | term_start          = 18 March 2017
 | term_end            = 10 March 2021
-| term_start2         = 21 March 2017
+| term_start2         = 2017
 | term_start3         = 2002
 | term_end3           = 2012
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 '''Trivendra Singh Rawat''' (born 20 December 1960)<ref>{{cite news|title=Trivendra Singh Rawat, an RSS 'pracharak' who struck it rich in politics|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/trivendra-singh-rawat-an-rss-pracharak-who-struck-it-rich-in-politics/articleshow/57693215.cms|newspaper=The Economic Times|access-date=17 March 2017|date=17 March 2017}}</ref> is an Indian politician who served as the [[Chief Minister of Uttarakhand]] between 2017 and 2021.
-Rawat was a member of the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] from 1979 to 2002 and held the post of organising secretary of the Uttarakhand region, and later the Uttarakhand state, after the state's formation in 2000. He was elected from [[Doiwala (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Doiwala]] in the State's [[2002 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|first legislative assembly elections]] in 2002. He retained his seat in the [[2007 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|2007 elections]] and served as the State's Minister of Agriculture.<ref>{{cite news|title=Trivendra Singh Rawat, ex-RSS pracharak, to be CM of Uttarakhand|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/in-uttarakhand-ex-rss-pracharak-trivendra-singh-rawat-to-be-cm-4572503/|work=The Indian Express|access-date=17 March 2017|date=17 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/who-is-trivendra-singh-rawat-uttarakhand-chief-ministerial-contender-rss-bjp-amit-shah-4572863/|title=Who is Trivendra Singh Rawat?|date=17 March 2017|work=The Indian Express|access-date=17 March 2017|language=en-US}}</ref>
+Rawat was a member of the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] from 1979 to 2002 and held the post of organizing secretary of the Uttarakhand region, and later the Uttarakhand state, after the state's formation in 2000. He was elected from [[Doiwala (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Doiwala]] in the State's [[2002 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|first legislative assembly elections]] in 2002. He retained his seat in the [[2007 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|2007 elections]] and served as the State's Minister of Agriculture.<ref>{{cite news|title=Trivendra Singh Rawat, ex-RSS pracharak, to be CM of Uttarakhand|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/in-uttarakhand-ex-rss-pracharak-trivendra-singh-rawat-to-be-cm-4572503/|work=The Indian Express|access-date=17 March 2017|date=17 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/who-is-trivendra-singh-rawat-uttarakhand-chief-ministerial-contender-rss-bjp-amit-shah-4572863/|title=Who is Trivendra Singh Rawat?|date=17 March 2017|work=The Indian Express|access-date=17 March 2017|language=en-US}}</ref>
 As a member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], Rawat served as [[Jharkhand]]'s in-charge and Uttarakhand cadre's president. Winning from Doiwala again in [[2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|2017]], he was named the Chief Minister after his party won [[Majority government|majority]] and formed the government.<ref>{{cite web|title=Uttarakhand: BJP MLA Trivendra Singh Rawat to take oath as chief minister
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 Rawat was born on 20 December 1960<ref name="jagran1"/> in the village of Khairasain in the [[Kotdwar]] [[tehsil]], in [[Pauri Garhwal district]] of [[Uttarakhand]]. He was the ninth and youngest child in the family. He obtained his master's degree in journalism from Birla Campus in [[Srinagar, Uttarakhand|Srinagar]] affiliated to the [[Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University]].<ref name="th1">{{cite news|last1=Upadhyay|first1=Kavita|title=Grassroots worker now set to lead|url=http://www.thehindu.com/elections/uttarakhand-2017/grassroots-worker-now-set-to-lead/article17523903.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=18 March 2017|date=18 March 2017}}</ref>
-Rawat joined the right-wing organisation [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] in 1979 before becoming its ''pracharak'' (campaigner) for the [[Dehradun]] region in 1985. Subsequently, he joined the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP), the political party associated with it. He was made BJP's organising secretary for the Uttarakhand region and worked with senior leader [[Lalji Tandon]] at the time. He was also actively involved in the [[Uttarakhand movement]], during which he was arrested several times. After the region received [[States and union territories of India|statehood]] in 2000, Rawat was made the state cadre's BJP president.<ref name="th1"/>
+Rawat joined the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] in 1979 before becoming its ''pracharak'' (campaigner) for the [[Dehradun]] region in 1985. Subsequently, he joined the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP), the political party associated with it. He was made BJP's organizing secretary for the Uttarakhand region and worked with the senior leader [[Lalji Tandon]] at the time. He was also actively involved in the [[Uttarakhand movement]], during which he was arrested several times. After the region received [[States and union territories of India|statehood]] in 2000, Rawat was made the state cadre's BJP president.<ref name="th1"/>
-Rawat lost a by-election from [[Doiwala (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Doiwala]] in 2014, when the seat was vacated by former chief Minister [[Ramesh Pokhriyal]]. In 2017 he won the same Assembly constituency of Doiwala.
+Rawat lost a by-election from [[Doiwala (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Doiwala]] in 2014, when the seat was vacated by former Chief Minister [[Ramesh Pokhriyal]].
-His 27 July 2017 tweet about linguistic preferences sparked off a controversy and he was accused of preferring [[Garhwali language|Garhwali]] language over the [[Kumaoni language|Kumaoni]] language.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/dehradun/cm-tweets-in-regional-languages-bring-out-garhwal-kumaon-divide/story-xYgTo7m0z434R4NvrKgiXI.html|title=CM tweets in regional languages bring out Garhwal-Kumaon divide |first=Neha |last=Pant |date=30 July 2017|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=12 March 2020}}</ref>
+=== Chief Minister ===
+In 2017 he won the same Assembly constituency of Doiwala. His 27 July 2017 tweet about linguistic preferences sparked off controversy and he was accused of preferring [[Garhwali language|Garhwali]] language over the [[Kumaoni language|Kumaoni]] language.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/dehradun/cm-tweets-in-regional-languages-bring-out-garhwal-kumaon-divide/story-xYgTo7m0z434R4NvrKgiXI.html|title=CM tweets in regional languages bring out Garhwal-Kumaon divide |first=Neha |last=Pant |date=30 July 2017|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=12 March 2020}}</ref>
 In July 2019, Rawat said that cow is the only animal that exhales oxygen and that living in close proximity to cows could cure tuberculosis.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/cow-only-animal-that-exhales-oxygen-says-uttarakhand-cm/article28718605.ece|title=Cow is the only animal that exhales oxygen, says Uttarakhand CM|date=26 July 2019|work=The Hindu|access-date=28 July 2019|others=PTI|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Cow is the only animal that exhales oxygen, says Uttarakhand CM |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/cow-is-the-only-animal-that-exhales-oxygen-says-uttarakhand-cm/videoshow/70408673.cms?from=mdr |access-date=6 March 2020 |date=27 July 2019}}</ref> This unscientific statement sparked off a controversy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/cows-exhale-oxygen-can-cure-tuberculosis-uttarakhand-cm-trivendra-rawats-bizarre-claims-spark-row-7063391.html|title='Cows exhale oxygen, can cure tuberculosis': Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Rawat's bizarre claims spark row|date=26 Jul 2019|website=Firstpost|access-date=28 July 2019}}</ref>
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