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Harish Rawat Resigns After ED Raids Assistant’s Home

By Drooid · Sep 13, 2026, 4:15 AM UTC · How we work

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Rawat Resigns

Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat resigned from two posts on September 12, 2026 after the Enforcement Directorate raided his assistant’s Dehradun home.
The raids also hit homes of the Service Selection Commission chair, secretary, exam controller and a private computer agency owner, with officials alleging OMR answer sheets were altered for payment, compromising the 2016 exam.
ED seized Rs 32 lakh cash, gold and 12 watches.
Rawat called aide noble, ashamed if guilty.

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Rawat Resigns

Uttarakhand ex-chief minister Harish Rawat resigned from Congress posts on 12 September 2026 after the Enforcement Directorate raided his assistant Chandan Singh Jeena’s Dehradun home.
Senior Congress leaders and Rawat called the raid politically motivated to damage the party before elections.
The Enforcement Directorate seized about Rs 32 lakh in cash, gold and a dozen luxury watches from Jeena’s home.
Opposition leaders Yashpal Arya and Ganesh Godiyal labelled the raid a vendetta aimed at influencing the election.

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Rawat Resigns

Former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat resigned from two Congress posts on September 12, 2026 after the Enforcement Directorate raided his assistant’s Dehradun residence.
Rawat urged those with proof of his role in the 2016 exam to send it to CBI, ED or police, saying he would accept punishment.
The Enforcement Directorate froze Rs 52.16 lakh in Jeena’s and his family’s bank accounts.
Agents also seized Jeena’s mobile phone for forensic analysis.

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Historical Context

Since the 1990s the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (Vyapam) enabled an exam-fraud ring that exploded in 2013, prompting a Special Task Force and a CBI takeover that arrested more than 2,000 people. The September 2026 Enforcement Directorate raid on Harish Rawat’s aide Chandan Singh Jeena and the SSC chair shows continued probing of answer-sheet tampering ahead of state elections.

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Rawat Resigns

Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat resigned from two posts on September 12, 2026 after the Enforcement Directorate raided his assistant’s Dehradun home.
The raids also hit homes of the Service Selection Commission chair, secretary, exam controller and a private computer agency owner, with officials alleging OMR answer sheets were altered for payment, compromising the 2016 exam.
ED seized Rs 32 lakh cash, gold and 12 watches.
Rawat called aide noble, ashamed if guilty.

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