Besides Rijiju, party president Jagat Prakash Nadda appointed Nagaland Deputy Chief Minister Yanthungo Patton and party’s national secretary Anil Antony as election co-in charge for the northeastern state.
Union Environment Minister, Bhupendra Yadav was appointed as Madhya Pradesh election in-charge and Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw as co-incharge of the state.
In the run up to the assembly polls scheduled early next year, the BJP Punjab unit has launched several campaigns to strengthen its organisational structure at ground level. Sharma said that work is progressing at good pace for formation of a 21-member committee at each polling booth.
