The BJP has appointed its national general secretary Saroj Pandey and P Muralidhar Rao as observers for selecting the leaders of its legislative party in the Delhi and Jharkhand Assemblies. The appointments were made with the approval of the party president JP Nadda, an official statement said.
The AAP bagged 62 of the 70 Assembly seats in the just concluded polls in Delhi. In Jharkhand’s 81 seats, JMM who is leading the coalition-government in the State won 30 seats, Congress-led-UPA 25 and BJP collected 25 in December 2019 poll. Raghubar Das, the ousted BJP CM who was the first non-tribal to head the State, also lost his Assembly seats. Elections are due in Bihar and West Bengal in about year’s time.
