New Delhi, May 29 – The race for the next BJP chief is hotting up. According to sources, Om Mathur, a close aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and in-charge of the last Gujarat assembly elections, is a frontrunner along with Himachal Pradesh Rajya Sabha member and party general secretary Jagat Prakash Nadda.
Amid talk of leadership change in the BJP after government formation, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and other top Sangh leaders on Wednesday.
Rajnath, who is now the Home Minister, spent some time with Bhagwat and discussed who will take over from him as the BJP chief and other changes in the party after government formation.
The names of party general secretaries JP Nadda, Amit Shah and Om Mathur are doing the rounds for replacing Rajnath as BJP President. Between 1998 and 2003 and 2008 and 2010, Nadda served as the Cabinet Minister in Himachal Pradesh state government.
Nadda is currently a Rajya Sabha MP from Himachal Pradesh since May 2012. He became the party’s national general secretary since May 2010.
General secretary Amit Shah who successfully scripted the party’s landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh where the party won 71 of 80 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls in also said to be in the race. General secretary P Muralidhar Rao’s name is also said to have been discussed.
-INDIA TODAY
