S Tikendra Singh appointed BJP's Manipur unit chief

BJP on Tuesday appointed its spokesperson Saikhom Tikendra Singh as new president of party's Manipur unit.
He replaces Kshetrimayum Bhabananda Singh. appointment comes into immediate effect, said a letter by BJP's national general secretary Arun Singh. Born in 1952 in a political family in Bishnupur, Singh completed his MA in Philosophy from Banaras Hindu University in 1973.

He was associated with Jay Prakash Narayan movement during his university days. He was Associate Professor in Maharaja Bodhachandra College in Imphal but took voluntary retirement from college in 1994 to join BJP.

He was general secretary (administration) of state BJP from 2006 to 2009. Besides being chief spokesperson of party's Manipur unit, he was in his latest role chairman of BJP's state disciplinary action committee.

Party insiders kw him as a good orator who was a dedicated swayam sevak and maintains close contact with Nagpur, headquarters of RSS.