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BJP Appoints State Poll Officers to Oversee Organisational Elections
The New Indian Express Bengaluru
|June 28, 2025
In a move towards electing its national president, the BJP on Friday appointed two Union ministers and a former Union and current MP as state election officers to oversee its organisational elections in Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal.
These elections are a precursor to the much-anticipated election for the party's national president.
Dr K Laxman, BJP OBC Morcha's national president and the party's National Election Officer (NEO), has appointed Union ministers Kiren Rijiju and Harsh Malhotra, and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad as state election officers of Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and West Bengal, respectively.
This story is from the June 28, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Bengaluru.
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