LUDHIANA : The BJP today appointed Lok Sabha member Vijay Sampla as President of Punjab unit of BJP. He replaced Kamal Sharma who was considered close to Badal family. Vijay Sampla is at present the minister of state for social justice at the Centre. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Hoshiarpur seat.
Former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa was appointed chief of the party in Karnataka. Phoolpur MP Keshav Prasad Maurya will head the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh.
In the youngest Indian state of Telangana, BJP legislator K. Laxman has been named to head the party, and former Lok Sabha member Tapir Gao in Arunachal Pradesh.
Yeddyurappa became the frontrunner to take up the post of the party’s Karnataka unit chief after the Supreme Court last year declined to intervene and revoke a Karnataka High Court order putting on hold his prosecution in a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The former chief minister resigned from his post following charges of being involved in an illegal mining case that hit the state in 2011. In July 2012, he broke off from the BJP and formed his own party, but returned tol the party fold in January 2014. He is a national vice president of the party.