BJP replaced the chiefs of five state units, choose dalit leaders to head state unit

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Apr 09 2016 09:32 AM
Harshita

Friday, BJP replaced the chiefs of five state units, In which backward tea vendor Keshav Prasad Maurya with party president Amit Shah to head the party in Uttar Pradesh while completing the rehabilitation of former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa by giving him the reins of the organisation in the state.

Meanwhile, there is much more interesting choice Amit Shah handed the charge of Punjab to union minister Vijay Sampla who is a dalit and worked as a loader in a mandi before going to the gulf as a plumber.

Shah nominated another OBC member, K Laxman, as president of the unit in Telangana, the country's youngest state. Former party MP Tapir Gao was appointed the new BJP chief in Arunachal Pradesh.

The appointment of Yeddyurappa completes the rehabilitation of the former CM, who was a big factor in the party's success in installing the first saffron government in south India, but whose position diminished because of corruption cases and manoeuvers of factional rivals. Yeddyurappa, who left the party to float his own outfit, came back to the fold before the LS elections, helping Narendra Modi win a majority of seats in the Congress-ruled state.

Though he felt more comfortable under the Modi-Shah regime, relief from court in corruption cases appears to have helped with his return to pre-eminence in the state BJP. Importantly, his return coincides with indications of growing disappointment with Congress. The party will expect "Yeddy" to deliver support from fellow Lingayats, the single largest caste which accounts for 17% of the population.

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