Ahead of the Lok Sabha election, BJP president J.P. Nadda on January 27 appointed election in-charge for 23 States and Union Territories, with party vice-president Baijayant Panda being given the charge of Uttar Pradesh and general secretary Vinod Tawde retaining the position in Bihar, where the party appears to be on track to form the government again.
Mr. Tawde will have Rajya Sabha MP and former Jharkhand unit chief Deepak Prakash as co-in-charge. Among other appointments, Arvind Menon will be in charge of Tamil Nadu, while in Karnataka, Radha Mohan Das Agarwal will take over from general secretary Arun Singh. National general secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam has been given the charge of Uttarakhand.
Former Bihar Minister and BJP’s in-charge for West Bengal, Mangal Pandey, has been appointed the election in-charge for the State. BJP leaders Amit Malviya and Asha Lakra will be the co-in-charges. The BJP has appointed former Uttar Pradesh Minister Shrikant Sharma as the election in-charge for Himachal Pradesh. Sanjay Tondon will be the co-in-charge.
