The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday declared presidents of its 43 district units. The list of the presidents was declared by State BJP vice-president and election officer for organisational elections Ajay Pratap Singh with the consent of senior party leaders.
However, discontent is prevailing among the party leaders in several districts. The party workers have alleged that in few districts, the election in-charge have been appointed as district presidents. They include- Anupam Anurag Awasthi, who was in-charge of election in Katni, Kantidev Singh, who was in-charge in Shahdol.
The party workers have also alleged that the person, who was sacked on the charge of corruption recently, has been appointed district president in Shahdol. The allegations related to corruption against Anupam Anurag Awasthi were investigated by the State BJP president Nandkumar Singh Chouhan, but was again appointed there.
The list of newly declared district presidents includes- Anoop Singh Bhadouriya (Morena), Sanjeev Kankar (Bhind), Vikram Bundela (Datia), Devendra Sharma (Gwalior urban), Ashok Garg (Sheopur, Sushil Raghuwanshi (Shivpuri), Raja Dube (Sagar), Abhay Pratap Singh Yadav (Tikamgarh), Pushpedra Pratap Singh (Chhatarpur), Devnarayan Shrivastava (Damoh), Sadanand Gautam (Panna), Vidya Prakash Shrivastava (Rewa), lalchand Gupta (Sidhi), Kantidev Singh (Singrauli), Anupam Anurag Awasthi (Shahdol), Manish Singh (Umaria), GS Thakur (Jabalpur urban), Shiv Patel (Jabalpur rural), Sunil Jain (Dindori), Ratan lodhi (Mandla), Ramesh Ranglani (Balaghat), Neeta Pateriya (Seoni), Kailash SOni (Narsinghpur), Narendra Raju Parmar (Chhindwara), Amar Singh Meena (Harda), Jitendra kapoor (Betul), Gopal Singh Meena (Bhopal rural), Dharmendra Chouhan (Raisen), Suryaprakash Meena (Vidisha), Badrilal Yadav (Rajgarh), Kailash Sharma (Indore urban), Ashok Somani (Indore rural), Harish Kotwale (Khandwa), Vijay Gupta (Burhanpur), Babulal Mahajan (Khargone), Om Khandelwal (Barwani), Rakesh Agrawal (Alirajpur), Daulat Bhavsar (Jhabua), Raza Warfa (Dhar), Iqbal Singh Gandhi (Ujjain urban), Shyam Bansal (Ujjain rural), Dilip Sakhlecha (Aagar) and Gopikrishna Vyas (Dewas).