Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Sambit Patra has been appointed as the in-charge of the North Eastern states.
This BJP on Friday announced names of in-charges for 15 states who will have the mandate to oversee electioneering in over a dozen states, with an eye also on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Patra, who was in charge of Manipur earlier, will now be responsible for overseeing election-related work in all the North Eastern states and will be assisted by Rituraj Sinha, the party’s national secretary. Among others, former Tripura chief minister Biplab Deb has been made in-charge of Haryana, former Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani in-charge of Punjab-Chandigarh, former union minister Prakash Javadekar has been entrusted with the responsibility to expand the party’s footprint in Kerala and former Bihar minister Mangal Pandey in-charge of West Bengal. Former Union minister Mahesh Sharma will be overseeing work in Tripura, the party said.
The party has begun aggressive preparations for the general elections and held a meeting in the national capital this week to draw a blueprint for strengthening its position in 144 Lok Sabha constituencies where its performance was found wanting in the previous general elections.
The party has also appointed a three-member panel to redouble efforts in 73,000 booths across the country to improve its position in the 2024 general elections.
