Bihar minister Dilip Kumar Jaiswal was on Thursday named state president of the BJP, replacing Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary.
Jaiswal, who is also a member of the legislative council, was appointed as the state unit chief by BJP national president J P Nadda, and his appointment comes into force “with immediate effect”, said a communication issued by the party’s headquarters in Delhi in the evening.
Choudhary had been heading the Bihar unit of the BJP since March last year.
The BJP on Friday appointed its Rajya Sabha member and national general secretary Radha Mohan Das Agrawal as the party’s in charge for Rajasthan, and former Lok Sabha MP Harish Dwivedi as its in charge for Assam.
In a statement, the party said its national president J P Nadda has made Arvind Menon, a national secretary, and former MP Rajdeep Roy in charge for Tamil Nadu and Tripura respectively.
Menon has been reassigned the responsibility he already held.
Former BJP women morcha chief Vijaya Rahatkar will be the co-incharge of the organisational affairs in Rajasthan and Sudhakar Reddy in Tamil Nadu.
Rajya Sabha MP Madan Rathore was named its Rajasthan unit president in place of C P Joshi.
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