The BJP parliamentary board on Thursday, 3 January, appointed central observers, including Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Thawar Chand Gehlot, for the election of leaders of its legislature party in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
The party has selected Singh and Vinay Sahasrabuddhe for Madhya Pradesh, Jaitley and Avinash Rai Khanna for Rajasthan, and Gehlot and Anil Jain for Chhattisgarh, senior party leader JP Nadda told reporters.
Sahasrabuddhe, Khanna and Jain are party in-charges for their respective states.
The party lost the Assembly elections in the three states to the Congress last month.
Party leaders said this was the main agenda of the parliamentary board meeting.
Dates for the legislature party meetings in the states will be decided later, they added.
The BJP parliamentary board, the top decision-making body of the party, met on Thursday evening to deliberate on a host of issues, including the political situation following its loss in the recent state Assembly polls.
The leaders met at the party’s headquarters in Delhi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party President Amit Shah, besides other senior leaders, attended the meeting and are expected to speak on relevant issues, sources said.
The board meeting saw Cabinet ministers Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari, Thawarchand Gehlot, former Chief Minister from Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Health Minister JP Nadda, Cabinet minister and party’s National General Secretary Ramlal in attendance.
(With inputs from PTI)
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