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Rajnath Singh elected BJP President
Wednesday January 23, 2013 01:40:15 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Rajnath Singh was Wednesday unanimously elected the new president
of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), succeeding Nitin Gadkari who
decided against a second term till he was cleared of alleged
corruption charges.
Rajnath Singh will serve his term from 2013 to 2015, and lead the
party in the 2014 general elections.
A resolution supporting Rajnath Singh as the BJP chief was
unanimously adopted by the parliamentary board of the party, after
which he filed his nomination papers.
The returning officer announced that 17 other nominations were
also filed in Rajnath Singh's favour.
Rajnath Singh has previously been the president of the party from
2005 to 2009. He first became the party president in December
2005, following the resignation of L.K. Advani.
He was re-elected in November 2006 unanimously and was succeeded
by Nitin Gadkari in 2009.
He also served as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh from October
2000 to March 2002.
Rajnath Singh's name was zeroed upon for the post of party
president Tuesday evening, following Income Tax 'surveys' of
around nine locations connected to alleged financial wrongdoing by
a company linked to Gadkari.
According to informed sources, several senior leaders, including
BJP veteran L.K. Advani, had reservations on Gadkari getting a
second term in view of allegations surrounding the Purti group
linked to him.
Gadkari, meanwhile, said he voluntarily backed out from going for
a second term as he wanted his name cleared of the allegations.
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