The BJP on Saturday made its Lok Sabha member Sanjay Jaiswal as the party's Bihar unit's President while appointing Satish Punia, its MLA from Amber assembly segment in Jaipur district as the party's Rajasthan unit President, a party statement said. Jaiswal, who has been winning from Paschim Champaran constituency on the trot since 2009, is seen as an ideological moderate who enjoys a non-controversial image.

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BJP also appointed Ajay Kumar as General Secretary in Uttarakhand

A vocal section of the state BJP has often targeted its ally and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who has at times taken a stand opposite to that of the saffron party on a host of issues, including the nullification of the Article 370 and the citizenship bill, underlining the unease in their alliance. 

Political watchers believe Jaiswal may help the BJP bring some harmony in its uneven tie-up with Nitish Kumar-led JD(U). The state is scheduled to face the assembly polls later next year. Jaiswal replaces Nityanand Rai, a minister of state in the Union government, as the head of the BJP's Bihar unit. 

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Punia, a seasoned organization man, has been appointed chief of the Rajasthan BJP after the death of state party chief Madan Lal Saini recently. Hailing from Churu's Rajgarh, Punia, 55, is the MLA from Amber constituency of Jaipur district and hails from the Jat community, a politically influential group in the western state who has not been traditional BJP voters but has backed it in the recent Lok Sabha polls in good numbers. A BJP statement said the party has also appointed Ajay Kumar as general secretary in charge of its organisation in Uttarakhand.

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NCP MP Udayanraje Bhosale joins BJP

Ahead of Maharashtra assembly polls, NCP MP Udayanraje Bhosale who is a descendant of Shivaji Raje Bhosale, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in New Delhi on September 14. Top leaders, including its president Amit Shah and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis officially inducted him. Shah asserted that the NDA alliance will come back to power in the state with a three-fourths majority. According to reports, Ghodmare was ready to work in whatever capacity the party wanted him to.

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