Jat leader Bhupendra Singh made UP BJP chief; Tripura gets new party head

Chaudhary will replace Swatantra Dev Singh, who has been made a minister in the Yogi Adityanath government.

Updated on: Aug 25, 2022, 15:47:16 IST

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday appointed Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary as the party's president in the state, while Rajiv Bhattacharya has been made its Tripura chief. In Himachal Pradesh, the party has appointed Saudan Singh as the election in-charge and Devendra Singh Rana will be the co-in-charge.

Chaudhary will replace Swatantra Dev Singh, who has been made a minister in the Yogi Adityanath government.

Chaudhary's appointment is seen as the BJP's attempt to reach out to the influential Jat community, which was at the forefront of the year-long farmers' protest against the three contentious farm laws. Uttar Pradesh has become the third state where the BJP will be headed by a Jat leader, after OP Dhankar in Haryana and Satish Poonia in Rajasthan.

Patel had submitted his resignation after becoming the state's Jal Shakti minister- in keeping with the party's one man-one-post principle.

As the chief minister hails from eastern Uttar Pradesh, the BJP also looks to strike a regional balance with the appointment of Chaudhary, who is from western Uttar Pradesh, as the party's state president. Cas state president of the party’s Uttar Pradesh unit.

Himachal Pradesh is expected to go to the assembly elections in November followed by Tripura in March next year.

Bhattacharya will replace Manik Saha, who became the Tripura chief minister in July, replacing Biplab Kumar Deb, who was abruptly dropped.

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