BJP appoints state in-charges, Anil Antony gets Nagaland and Meghalaya

New Delhi: The BJP has announced its new state in-charges and co-incharges, with Anil Antony appointed as the in-charge for Nagaland and Meghalaya.

It is noteworthy that Anil Antony, son of senior Congress leader A K Antony, faced defeat in the Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala, securing only the third position with 234,406 votes. Anil previously served as the Kerala Congress Social Media Team Coordinator and resigned from all posts of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee in January 2023 following controversy over the BBC's documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He criticised the BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, describing the BBC as "a state-sponsored channel with a long history of prejudices" against India. He later joined the BJP in April 2023.

The party has appointed General Secretary Vinod Tawde as in-charge of Bihar and MP Deepak Prakash as co-in-charge.

Nitin Nabin has been appointed in charge of Chhattisgarh, Ashish Sood of Goa and Ajeet Gopchade of Manipur.

The states where elections will take place in coming times--Satish Poonia will oversee the work in Haryana, while Surendra Singh Nagar will be his co-incharge.

Tarun Chugh has been appointed in-charge of two UTs--Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir. Ashish Sood will be in charge in J-K.

Laxmikant Bajpai (MP) will see the work in Jharkhand. In Himachal Pradesh, Srikant Sharma has been appointed as incharge while Sanjay Tandon is the co-in-charge.

Dushyant Kumar Gautam of Uttarakhand and Rekha Verma as co-incharge. BJP senior leader Prakash Javadekar will see the work in Kerala while MP Aparajita Sarangi will be his co-incharge.

BJP MP from Odisha, Sambit Patra, has been appointed as co-ordinator, while former Union Minister of State for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan, will be joint co-ordinator of North East states.

Meanwhile, Ravinder Rana, BJP Jammu and Kashmir Chief said on Thursday that the party's National President, JP Nadda will visit the Union Territory on July 6 in view of the Assembly elections.

Rana also emphasized that the next Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir will be from the BJP.

Earlier this month, Union Home Minister Amit Shah unequivocally announced that the BJP will not enter into an alliance with any party in the upcoming Haryana Assembly polls.

"Remove this doubt from your mind that we will go with anyone or take anyone's support, rather, we will form the BJP government with an absolute majority," Shah said.

In a post on X, the Home Minister said that in the last 10 years, Haryana has seen a new era of welfare and development of farmers and others.

"Today I interacted with the energetic workers of Haryana at the BJP Executive meeting in Panchkula (Haryana). In the last 10 years, Haryana has seen a new era of welfare and development of farmers, poor, deprived and backward people, leaving behind the rule of cuts, commissions and corruption," he said.

"Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji, the workers of Haryana BJP are determined to go door-to-door and conduct an extensive public relations campaign to ensure that this time the BJP wins the state with a two-thirds majority," Amit Shah added. 

With PTI, ANI  inputs