| BJP’s poor performance in the Maharasthra assembly elections claimed its first victim on Thursday.
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| Party president L K Advani has replaced Gopinath Munde with Nitin Gadkari as state unit chief.
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| Gadkari is the leader of the opposition in the state legislative council.
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| Munde, who had been deputy chief minister during the BJP-Shiv Sena rule, had been elected to state presidentship a few months ahead of the assembly polls. He is brother-in-law of party general secretary Pramod Mahajan.
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| Gadkari is from Vidarbha while Munde hails from Marathwada.
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| The party also appointed Jagdish Shettar as Karnataka unit president, replacing S Ananth Kumar, who has been made national general secretary, party vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters in New Delhi.
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| The party appointed Bosaram Seeran as the Arunachal Pradesh state unit president.
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| Meanwhile, senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Arun Gujrathi was on Thursday unanimously elected new chief of Maharashtra unit of the party.
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| Gujrathi’s name was suggested by Ankush Tope and seconded by Anil Deshmukh and others at the party’s general body meeting in New Delhi. He replaces R R Patil, who resigned from the post he held for over 19 months.
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| In Chhatisgarh, tribal leader Shiv Pratap Singh has been elected as the new president of the BJP.
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| He will succeed Nand Kumar Sai. Singh, who is a senior MLA from the Surajpur constituency in the state’s Surguja district, enjoys cabinet minister status. |
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