Tirath Singh Rawat Age, Caste, Wife, Children, Family, Biography & More

Bio/Wiki
Profession	Politician
Famous For	Being the 9th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	in centimeters- 178 cm in meters- 1.78 m in feet & inches- 5’ 10”
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Salt and pepper
Politics
Political Party	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Political Journey	• He was a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council from 1997 to 2002. • He was the Education Minister of Uttarakhand from 2000 to 2002. • In 2007, he was appointed as the state general secretary of BJP (Uttarakhand). • He was the MLA from Chaubattakhal constituency of Uttarakhand from 2012 to 2017. • In 2013, he was appointed as the state president of BJP (Uttarakhand) and remained in the position till 2015. • In 2017, he became BJP's National Secretary. • In 2019, he was elected as a Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from the Garhwal constituency. • In March 2021, after the 8th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Trivendra Singh Rawat, resigned from the CM's post, Tirath Singh Rawat was appointed as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. • On 2 July 2021, he resigned as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
Personal Life
Date of Birth	9 April 1964 (Thursday)
Age (as of 2023)	59 years Years
Birthplace	Village Sinro, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttar Pradesh (now Uttarakhand, India)
Zodiac sign	Aries
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Village Sinro, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand
College/University	Birla Campus Srinagar, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Uttarakhand (1992)
Educational Qualification [1]Tirath Singh Rawat's official website	• Master's in Sociology • Diploma in Journalism
Religion	Hinduism [2]Tirath Singh Rawat's official website
Controversies	• In March 2021, a few days after taking charge as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Tirath Singh made a controversial remark against the practice of women wearing "ripped jeans." He made the alleged misogynist comment in his speech at a workshop organised by the Uttarakhand State Commission for Protection of Child Rights in Dehradun. Recalling an anecdote, Tirath stated that he was stunned upon seeing a woman, who runs an NGO, wearing a pair of ripped jeans and was worried about the precedent she was setting for society. Later, he issued an apology saying that he is apologetic if his statement hurt someone. However, he stood by his statement and said that wearing ripped jeans is ethically wrong. [3]India Today • A few days after sparking controversy with his statements on women wearing ripped jeans, Tirath Singh triggered another controversy by saying that people should have given birth to more children if they wanted extra ration. [4]The Indian Express He said, "Those having 10 children got 50 kg while those with 20 got one quintal. People with two children got 10 kg. People built stores and found buyers. Who is to blame for this? Now you are jealous of it. When there was time, you produced only two children. Why didn't you produce 20" During the speech, he also misquoted a major historical fact by confusing Britain with America. He said, "As opposed to other countries, India is doing better in handling the pandemic. On the other hand, America, who enslaved us for 200 years and ruled the whole world, is struggling to control the virus" [5]The Times of India
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Marriage Date	9 December 1998
Family
Wife/Spouse	Rashmi Tyagi
Children	Son- None Daughter- Lokanksha Rawat
Parents	Father- Kalam Singh Rawat Mother- Gaura Devi
Money Factor
Salary (approx.)	Rs. 90,000 (as the CM of Uttarakhand) [6]Bare Acts Live
Net Worth (approx.)	Rs. 1.15 crore (as per the election affidavit submitted ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections) [7]My Neta

Some Lesser Known Facts About Tirath Singh Rawat

• Tirath Singh Rawat is an Indian politician and the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.

• Tirath Singh Rawat’s career in politics started during his college days when he joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student’s wing of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

• He served the RSS as a pracharak (promoter) of the organisation from 1983 to 1988.
  

  A picture from around 1987 when Atal Bihari Vajpayee had come for a Garhwal tour and Tirath (extreme right), who was then an RSS pracharak, was overseeing the tour

• He stayed in jail for two months during the Ram Temple movement in the early 90s.

• He played an active role in the Uttarakhand formation movement. During this time, he participated in several rallies and was one of the key members of the agitation.

• Like most of the BJP leaders, Tirath climbed the RSS ladder to enter the Bharatiya Janata Party.

• When Uttarakhand state was formed after getting separated from Uttar Pradesh in 2000, Tirath was appointed as the first education minister of the newly formed state.

• He was a low profile BJP leader and was not much known to many outside his constituency prior to his appointment as the 9th CM of Uttarakhand.
  

  Tirath Singh Rawat taking oath on becoming the 9th CM of Uttarakhand