In an effort to strengthen the party organisation in Kashi Region ahead of the 2024 parliamentary election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has appointed the incharges of all 16 districts coming in the region. Former Mayor of Varanasi Kaushlendra Patel has been appointed as the incharge of Pratapgarh district, while Arun Pathak has been appointed the incharge of Varanasi.
The BJP has divided the state into regions in view of the organisational structure and as many as 16 districts have been included in Kashi Region. To strengthen the party organisation and repeat its previous performance in the forthcoming parliamentary election next year, the BJP UP chief Bhupendra Chaudhary has appointed new faces in all 16 districts coming in Kashi Region as incharge keeping all equations to win the election in view.
The former Mayor of Varanasi Kaushlendra Patel has been given the responsibility of Pratapgarh district as incharge. Patel has discharged his responsibility on various posts in the party organisation and also is ex-Member of National Commission for Backward Class. He was elected as Mayor in 2006 as the youngest Mayor of Varanasi.
Arun Pathak has been appointed as the incharge of Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi while Rakesh Trivedi, Nagendra Raghuvanshi, Ashok Chaurasia, Santosh Patel, Meena Chaubey, Shankar Giri and Mahesh Chandra Srivastava (all belong to Varanasi) have been made the incharges of Ghazipur, Bhadohi, Jaunpur, Machhlishahr, Sultanpur, Amethi and Prayagraj City respectively.
Similarly, Uttar Maurya, Sushil Tripathi, Anamika Chaudhary, Saroj Kushwaha, Awadhesh Gupta and Amar Nath Yadav have been made the incharges of Prayagraj Trans-Ganga, Prayagraj Trans-Yamuna, Chandauli, Mirzapur, Kaushambi and Sonbhadra district respectively.