Five-time MLA, ex-Minister Sanjay Saraogi appointed BJP’s new Bihar unit chief

 

 

 

THE BJP on Monday appointed Sanjay Saraogi as its Bihar unit president, a month after the BJP-led NDA swept the Assembly polls in the eastern State. Saraogi, 57, a former Cabinet Minister in the Bihar Government, is an MLA from Dharbhanga constituency. He succeeds Dilip Jaiswal, who was appointed to the post less than two years ago.

 

“Bharatiya Janata Party national president Jagat Prakash Nadda has appointed Sanjay Saraogi as the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar with immediate effect,” BJP national general secretary Arun Singh said in a notification. Jaiswal is understood to have been replaced in keeping with the BJP’s stated policy of ‘one person one post’.

 

Last year, he had resigned from the Nitish Kumar Cabinet upon becoming the state BJP president, replacing Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary. Saraogi was inducted into the State Cabinet in February this year, and allocated the crucial Revenue and Land Reform portfolio.