In the last three days, amidst a hurry to the unopposed elections of the state’s presidents, which has completed the party’s half -presidential elections, technically cleaning the deck for the national presidential election, the BJP remains to be completed in major states like Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka.
Even there are expectations that the new BJP chief may be selected in the corner, a highly planned source in the party said that these states are important, before the party announced the national president, they would like to air the presidential elections first-it may take such a time.
The announcement of the new BJP president to replace JP Nadda has now seen a full year delay after the end of the expansion till June 2024 that the party’s national executive gave him the Lok Sabha elections in January 2023.
In Uttar Pradesh, while more than half of the district elections have been completed for a long time – the magic number required to be appointed as the state chief – party leaders say “Sub thhanda is (things are not yet going on).” A major source of UP BJP said that with the sudden hurry of the appointments of the party presidents, it is expected that there may be a party chief in UP soon. A BJP leader in UP said, “There is still speculation about which formula the party will adopt – a Dalit, OBC or Savan President, and also between these categories, which caste. The face will depend on it for the party chief.”
In Karnataka, even after the completion of half the district elections, things are stuck for a long time. In the state, the BJP was also embarrassed by the consistent lamps of Basangauda Patil Yatnal, who was the son of Vijayendra, former Chief Minister’s son and Lingayat Stronggman BS Yeddyurappa, against the BJP chief of the state, and was to expel Yatra from the party in late March 2025.
Meanwhile, the back-to-back announcements of the state unit presidents by the BJP on Tuesday and Wednesday, with high expectation this week, set the party circles about the possibility of organizational elections soon.
The party After announcing the names of Bechua and VP Ramalingam, PVN Madhav, as the respective presidents of its Mizoram and Puducherry units. In place of Purandeshwari, he was converted to the head of the BJP of Andhra Pradesh, while N Ramchander Rao took over from the Union Minister Kisan Reddy in Telangana.
Mahendra Bhatt gave the party’s reins in Uttarakhand and Dr. in Himachal Pradesh. Rajiv Bindal also retained, even the party was likely to announce the presidentials of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chandigarh, Arunachal Pradesh. The process of electing party heads in West Bengal and Tripura is also going on among other units.
To further appoint the state’s presidents, Ravindra Chavan, the chief of the working party, was appointed as the president of the party’s Maharashtra unit, while Anil Tiwari was appointed as the head of the BJP’s Andaman and Nicobar Unit.
On Wednesday, the state units of the party in Madhya Pradesh and Ladakh were replaced by Betul MLA Hemant Khandelwal along with their respective presidents by VD Sharma and Tashi Gelson Kachu from Fanchok Tanjin.
A party source said, “According to the Hindu calendar in the organizational elections in more states, the wishes of the period are likely to end on July 4; we hope that the entire organizational overhaul of the party would have completed within the month of Sawan in early August.”
“All the state presidents approved the senior BJP leadership appointed so far; it seems that the party is still to reach the consensus with the RSS, as far as the appointments of presidents of important states like UP, Gujarat and Karnataka are concerned,” another source said.
According to the BJP’s constitution, organizational elections move below and up. When half of the booth-level President is elected, Mandal elections have started. Along with half the mandatory presidents appointed, the party starts district elections, and when half the district presidents are announced, the party appoints the state president. BJP national president is elected after being appointed as half President of the state.
Due to 37 state units in India, the magic number is 19, so 19 is 19 – one number party has already achieved. While the BJP constitution provides for elections at every level, the national president and even the state’s presidents are traditionally elected unopposed, only one person files nomination.
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