Shortly before going to the Raj Bhawan to submit his resignation to Governor Aziz Qureshi, the former high court judge-turned-politician said he was resigning on the directives of the party high command.
"I am resigning from the post of chief minister on the directives of the party high command. Tomorrow there will be a meeting of MLAs and I request them to pass a resolution with consensus authorizing Congress president Sonia Gandhi to elect the new chief minister," Bahuguna said.
Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and AICC general secretaries Janardan Dwivedi and Ambika Soni, who is in charge of party affairs in the state, will be in Dehradun on Saturday as central observers for ensuring a smooth changeover.
Speculation was rife for months over Bahuguna's ouster after his leadership skills come under scrutiny in the wake of a natural calamity that had hit the state in June last year claiming thousands of lives.
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