New Delhi: BJP president JP Nadda on Sunday appointed O P Dhankar as the party president of the State, who was a cabinet minister in the BJP government in Haryana.
By appointing Dhankar, the BJP has continued with a Jat face, the most dominant caste in the state. Dhankar will replace incumbent Subhash Barala, who was also a Jat.
Letter issued by JP Nadda:
Both Dhankar and Barala had lost the Harayana Assembly elections held in October 2019. Dhankar was a Cabinet minister in the BJP government in Haryana.
Notably, despite a clean sweep in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, a couple of months later in the Assembly elections, the BJP ended six short of the halfway mark in the 90-member Assembly with several senior leaders and ministers, including Dhankar and Barala, losing their seats.