Bharatiya
Janata Party chief Amit Shah, who is credited with taking the party’s
membership to a new high and leading it to power in four states, is set
to steer the BJP for the next three years after he was elected unopposed
for the post of president on Sunday January 24,2016
Party
veterans LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, who have previously
expressed their unhappiness with Shah’s stewardship, were conspicuous by
their absence at the party headquarters.
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi along with his Cabinet colleagues Rajnath Singh,
M Venkaiah Naidu and Nitin Gadkari as well as BJP chief ministers
proposed Shah’s name during the nomination process in which no other
leader joined the fray
Altogether,
17 nominations were filed proposing the Gujarat leader’s name during
the three-hour nomination exercise, party vice president Avinash Rai
Khanna, who was the chief electoral officer, said as he announced his
unopposed election.
All
BJP chief ministers, barring Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar who was
busy in an official engagement, were present during the nomination
reflecting the virtually total support to Shah as party chief.
Amit Shah was the natural choice
for the party’s top post in May 2014 following emphatic victory in the
Lok Sabha elections, and he became the party president when Rajnath
Singh abdicated the post to join the Cabinet
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