New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday named Bhabesh Kalita and Adhikarimayum Sharda Devi as presidents of its Assam and Manipur units respectively. The appointments were made by BJP national president J.P. Nadda and come into immediate effect, party general secretary Arun Singh said in a statement.
Kalita, who is a sitting MLA in the Assam assembly, will replace Ranjeet Kumar Das, who became a minister in the newly-formed government in the state led by Himanta Biswa Sarma. The BJP had won the recently held assembly polls in Assam.
The party has also changed its state unit head for Manipur, which is going to polls next year. Adhikarimayum Sharda will succeed Saikhom Tikendra Singh, who succumbed to COVID-19 last month, to become the first woman president of the party in Manipur. She had joined the BJP in June 1995 and contested the lmphal Municipal Council elections.
Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh on Saturday hailed the BJP central leadership for appointing a woman member to lead the state unit of the saffron party.