Sh. Rajnath Singh Elected, National President of BJP

Shri Rajnath Singh has been unanimously elected national President of BJP for three years term.

Declaring his election as National President, All India Returning Officer O.P. Kohli said that in all 15 nomination papers were received proposing Shri Rajnath Singh's name for the National Presidentship. One nomination paper was presented by Sh. Atal Bihari Vajpayee on behalf of Shri Lal Krishna Advani, Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, Shri Jaswant Singh, Smt. Sushma Swaraj, Sh. Vijay Kumar Malhotra, Shri Kalyan Singh, Shri S.S. Ahluwalia, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Shri B.C. Khanduri, Shri Anant Kumar, Shri Kalraj Mishra, Shri M.A. Naqvi, Shri Thavarchand Gahlot, Shri Vinay Katiyar, Shri Arun Jaitley, Shri K. Janakrishnamurthi and other Members of Parliament, elected as National council Members by the BJP Parliamentary Party.

Besides this, Nomination papers proposing Shri Rajnath Singh's name were received from the following 14 States : Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Harayana, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamilnadu, West Bengal and Dadar-Nagar Haveli.

As all the nomination papers were found valid, Sh. O.P. Kohli declared Shri Rajnath Singh elected as National President.

(SHYAM JAJU)
Headquarter Incharge