Mahendra Singh appointed BJP’s election in-charge of Assam

December 27: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to kick start BJP’s election campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in 2019 from Silchar, Assam on 4 January. Prior to this, BJP’s National President Amit Shah appointed election charges for 17 states assigning Mahendra Singh, a minister in the Uttar Pradesh’s Yogi government as election in-charge of Assam.

Mahendra Singh was BJP’s Assam-in-charge and was given the credit for the party’s victory in the 2016 Assembly polls where it ousted the Congress government under Tarun Gogoi. Nalin Kohli, Spokesman of BJP has been given responsibility as election incharge of Manipur and Nagaland. Kohli was earlier incharge of Meghalaya. In Bihar, Bhupendra Yadav will continue to be the incharge of party affairs. Former Gujarat Minister Gordhan Zadafia, once a close aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been appointed in-charge in the crucially-important state of Uttar Pradesh, which sends 80 MPs to the Lower House of Parliament. Shah has appointed former Kerala unit President V. Muralidharan as incharge of Andhra Pradesh while Sunil Deodhar, credited for the party’s landslide victory in Tripura, will assist him as the co-incharge.

Shah has appointed Uttar Pradesh Minister Swantantra Dev Singh as incharge and former Delhi. Prakash Javadekar has been retained as the in-charge of Rajasthan. Party General Secreatray Arun Singh will be in charge of Odisha. Arvind Limbawali, an MLA from Karnataka, has been appointed as incharge of Telangana while union Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot has been given responsibilty as incharge of Uttarakhand.

Nitin Navin, a BJYM leader and an MLA from Bihar, has been appointed as incharge of Sikkim. Captain Abhimanyu, a minister from Haryana has been appointed as in-charge of Punjab and Chandigarh. Senior leader Om Praksh Mathur, a close associate of Modi, will continue as incharge of Gujarat. Tirath Singh Rawat, a BJP Secretary and former Uttarakhand BJP President, has been appointed as incharge of Himachal Pradesh while Bihar Health Minister Mangal Pandey has been given the charge of Jharkhand.