Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri, former Chief
Minister of Uttarakhand and senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, has
passed away
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Uttarakhand’s former
Chief Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri
passed away in Dehradun on 19 May 2026 at the age of 91.
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He was a retired Major
General in the Indian Army.
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He served two terms as
the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2007 to 2009 and again from 2011 to
2012.
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Khanduri represented the
Garhwal parliamentary constituency in the 16th Lok Sabha.
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He also served as the
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways during the tenure of former
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
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Before entering full-time
politics, he held the rank of Major General in the Indian Army.
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In public life, he was
popularly known as “General Sahab.”
¨ The Golden Quadrilateral is a national highway network project in India connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata.
¨ The project was launched to improve road connectivity among major industrial and cultural centres of the country.
