New Delhi: Forward of essential Meeting elections and the Lok Sabha polls subsequent 12 months, the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) Tuesday appointed new state presidents for Jharkhand, Telangana, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh.
Union minister G. Kishan Reddy was made the occasion’s state president of Telangana, senior BJP chief D. Purandeshwari would be the new Andhra Pradesh BJP president and former chief minister of Jharkhand, Babulal Marandi, was given the accountability of that state.
Veteran Sunil Jakhar, who switched to the BJP from the Congress final 12 months, might be head of Punjab. Jakhar has been the state unit’s Congress chief up to now and can substitute Ashwani Kumar Sharma.
Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N.T. Rama Rao’s daughter D. Purandeswari changed Somu Veeraraju as the brand new state BJP president.
BJP has appointed one other former Andhra chief minister, Kiran Kumar Reddy, as member of the Nationwide Govt Committee of the BJP. The final chief minister of a unified Andhra Pradesh, Reddy joined the BJP in April this 12 months.
In Telangana – which works to polls later in 2023 – the BJP has battled intense factionalism beneath former state president Sanjay Bandi. G. Kishan Reddy’s takeover as new chief is a nod to the truth that he has a robust assist base in occasion ideologue, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Nevertheless, Kishan Reddy’s appointment as Telangana chief hints that he could also be divested of the Tourism ministry in a doable Cupboard reshuffle.
The occasion additionally appointed MLA and former state minister Etela Rajender because the chairperson of the BJP’s election administration committee in Telangana.
Marandi is at the moment serving because the Chief of Opposition in Jharkhand and has additionally been its chief minister. He’ll substitute Deepak Prakash as the brand new Jharkhand BJP chief.
After the ballot debacle in Karnataka, the BJP is pulling out the stops for the upcoming state and basic elections. It has additionally convened a gathering of all state presidents, state basic secretaries, and state in-charges on 7 July. The assembly might be chaired by occasion president J.P. Nadda and nationwide basic secretary B.L. Santosh.
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