BJP announces district presidents in Haryana

ROHTAK/KARNAL: The state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced 22 district presidents on Wednesday. The appointments were made by Haryana BJP chief Om Prakash Dhankar, who along with state general secretary (organisation) Suresh Bhatt, met BJP national president JP Nadda in New Delhi on Tuesday.

The BJP has retained three district presidents: Ajay Bansal in Rohtak, Ashok Kumar Dhand in Kaithal and Gopal Sharma in Faridabad. The other district presidents are Vikram Kadyan in Jhajjar, Rakesh Sharma in Mahendergarh, Ajay Sharma in Panchkula, Narender Patel in Nuh, Rajesh Sapda in Yamunanagar, Raju Moor in Jind, Hukum Chand Yadav in Rewari, Satyender Parmar in Dadri, Charan Singh Tewatia in Palwal, Raj Kumar Saini in Kurukshetra, Captain Bhupender Singh in Hisar, Baldev Geroha in Fatehabad, Rajesh Batora in Ambala, Mohan Lal Kaushik in Sonepat, Sankar Dhupad in Bhiwani, Aditya Devi Lal in Sirsa, Yogender Rana in Karnal, Archana Gupta in Panipat and Gargi Khakar in Gurugram.

The list includes two women — Archana Gupta and chairman of Haryana khadi and village industries board Gargi Kakkar — from Panipat and Gurugram. The BJP’S new list is a combination of jat and brahmin candidates as five candidates are from the jat community and four are brahmins.