Dharamlal Kaushik on Sunday was re-elected unopposed as BJP’s Chhattisgarh unit president.
Moreover, significantly, Saroj Pandey and 10 Members of Parliament (MPs) were also elected as members of the party’s National Council on the occasion.
Notably, it would be the second term for the former Speaker of Chhattisgarh Assembly as State BJP chief.
Kaushik, who emerged as the consensus candidate in race for the party president for Chhattisgarh unit, was the only candidate to file the nomination and was declared elected unopposed.
Saroj Pandey and 10 other MPs including Ramesh Bais, Vishnu Dev Sai, Kamladevi Patle, Banshilal Mahto, Dinesh Kashyap, Vikram Usendi, Kamalbhan Singh, Chandulal Sahu, Abhishek Singh and lakhan lal Sahu were also elected unopposed as members of National Council.
Rajya Sabha MP from Rajasthan Bhupendra Yadav was the Election Observer and BJP national general secretary and party in-charge for Chhattisgarh Anil Jain was the election in-charge.