Prabhat Jha appointed in-charge of Punjab BJP

Senior BJP leader and party’s national vice-president Prabhat Jha has been appointed as the in-charge of Punjab’s party affairs. Along with Punjab, he would also look after Chandigarh’s party unit.BJP national president Amit Shah on Friday announced the new list of the party's State heads. The Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh, Jha would replace senior BJP leader and Agra MP Prof Ram Shakar Katheria as Punjab State prabhari.

Jha is currently the member of Parliament’s Joint Committee formed to scrutinise the BJP’s ‘controversial’ land Acquisition Bill. Besides, Jha is also heading the panel on Swatchta Abhiyan, set up with the aim to take forward the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s programmes in the social sector.He was the Madhya Pradesh BJP president till December 2012, and had also performed the responsibility of party affairs in-charge for Delhi party unit. Jha is also editor of BJP mouth piece, an in-house magazine, Kamal Sandesh.

Besides, party’s Rajya Sabhya MP and newly-appointed national vice-president Avinash Rai Khanna has once again been retained as the in-charge of Jammu and Kashmir.Also, BJP national general secretary and senior state leader Tarun Chugh has also been appointed in-charge of Delhi party affairs along with Shyam Jaju.