Jaitley replaces Kalyan in UP, BJP appoints new state incharges

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New Delhi, May 29 (UNI) The BJP today appointed party General Secretary Arun Jaitley as incharge of UP affairs replacing former state chief minister Kalyan Singh in the aftermath of the saffron party's dismal show in the recently concluded assembly elections.

In the latest reshuffle in the party organisation, General Secretary Ananth Kumar has been retained as incharge of party affairs in Madhya Pradesh, Mr Gopinath Munde has been made incharge of Rajasthan while Mr Dharmendra Pradhan will look after the party affairs in Chhattisgarh where assembly elections are due in 2008.

Former BJP President M Venkaiah Naidu who was handling a plethora of important issues, including the UP assembly elections, does not figure in the list released by party President Rajnath Singh here today.

BJP Vice-President Yashwant Sinha has been given the sensitive state of Karnataka where the party is set to get the reins of power from JD(S) as per the understanding reached with the alliance partner in September.

Former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Shanta Kumar has been made incharge of Jammu and Kashmir with Mr R P Singh as the coordinator.

Mr Satpal Jain will look after Himachal Pradesh with Mr O P Dhankar as the Coordinator. Mr Thawar Chand Gehlot will be party incharge of Delhi.

Following is the list of Incharges (Prabharis): Mr Sahib Singh Verma, Incharge and Mrs Kiran Ghai, Coordinator for Punjab and Haryana, Mr Vijay Goel and Mrs Kiran Ghai, incharge and coordinator respectively for Haryana, Mr Krishna Murari Moghe incharge of Uttarakhand with Dr Anil Jain as coordinator. Senior UP leader Kalraj Mishra incharge of Bihar while Mrs Karuna Shukla and Ganeshi Lal will be Incharge and Coordinator for Jharkhand.

For Maharashtra Mr Kaptan Singh Solanki as Incharge and Mr Vamanacharya as Coordinator, Mr Rajiv Pratap Rudy as Incharge of Goa, Mr Kanji Bhai Patel as Incharge of Daman, Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Mr Prakash Javadekar as Inchage of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad as Incharge of Tamil Nadu, Mr Balbir Punj as Incharge of Kerala, Mr Thirunavukkarasar as Incharge of Andaman and Nicobar, Mr V Dhananjay Kumar as Incharge of Puducherry, Vinay Katiyar as Incharge of Orissa, Mr Kharabela Swain as Incharge of West Bengal and Tripura, Mr Harendra Kumar as Incharge of Asom and Sikkim, Mr Kiran Rijiju as Incharge of Meghalaya and Mizoram, Mr Jual Oram as Incharge of Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland with Mr Siddharth Nath Singh as Coordinator, Mr Tapir Gao as Incharge of Manipur, Mr Sridhar Pillai as Incharge of Lakshadweep.

Senior leader Pyarelal Khandelwal will be the Coordinator while BJP Vice President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi will continue in his capacity looking after election management and coordination. Mr Prabhat Jha has been attached to the President.

UNI

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