The organizational elections within the BJP appear to be raising a need for the process of choosing a new party chief.
At least two BJP state units have made themselves eligible for the intra-party elections by choosing their respective presidents. Many more, including Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, are expected to follow the suit soon. In Telangana, meanwhile, controversial MLA Raja Singh resigned on the possible appointment of Ramchander Rao as Telangana BJP chief on Monday.
Party sources said that a total of 24 state units are likely to announce their presidents this week, who set up a platform for the Intra-party pole to choose the successor of the party’s head JP Nadda.
“Mizoram and Puducherry chose the presidents of their respective state unit on Monday; Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh are in the process of doing so for more than two to three days. The party is likely to maintain the state presidents in Maharashtra.
Another party source said, “About 24 to 25 BJP state units are likely to announce their new presidents by the end of July. The process will be likely to end by the end of the first week of July.”
Nadda was appointed as the National President of the BJP in January 2020 and his term was scheduled to end in January 2023. But the party extended it twice keeping in mind the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and the assembly elections in Haryana, Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir.
Their successors will dilute the party during the Bihar elections, which was determined later this year, and assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam via 2026.
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The party last week appointed senior leaders for the election of state unit presidents in Maharashtra (Union Minister Kiren Rijiju), Uttarakhand (Minister of State Harsh Malhotra) and West Bengal (Rajya Sabha MP Ravi Shankar Prasad).
The BJP’s Constitution has completed the election of its national president to the level of the state unit’s presidents only after the organizational elections. According to the inner sources in the party, the process of filing nomination papers – usually by a candidate – is considered a logical step before the election of the leader, which is the head of that particular state unit.
This process enters the internal elections for at least half of the booths of booths under a state unit, then the election of Mandal heads, then the district or district presidents and then the president of the state unit.
So far, the party has announced new party heads out of 16 of the total 37 state units across the country. This number must be at least 19 to start the National Presidential election after the appointment of an observer.
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