Amit Shah Re-elected as BJP President Sunday January 24,2016

 

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