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NEW DELHI: Amit Shah was elected Bharatiya Janata Party President for a second term on Sunday.
Prime Minsiter Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, several other Union Ministers and BJP-ruled state Chief Ministers had proposed Shah’s name for BJP chief’s post during the nomination process earlier in the morning.
Shah was the only leader in the fray and his re-election was widely seen as a mere formality. This will be the first full term, of three years, for Shah who had taken over as party chief midway during Rajnath Singh’s term after the latter joined the cabinet in May 2014. Reacting to Shah’s election, Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu said the he is the most capable person who is committed to BJP’s ideology.
“He is the most capable person,he has organisational ability, good strategies and above all commitment to our ideology, ” said Naidu.
Senior party leaders L.K Advani and Murali Manohar Joshi were, however, notably absent on the occasion.
Earlier, Shah arrived at the party headquarters in New Delhi to file his nomination papers. However, several posters congratulating Shah in anticipation of his unopposed election as the party president had been put up at several places.
Under Shah’s leadership, the BJP scaled new heights by coming to power in Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir. However, the party had to face defeats in Delhi and Bihar Assembly elections, triggering some rumblings in the BJP.(PTI)
