CHANDIGARH: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday appointed former Congress MLA and industrialist Kewal Singh Dhillon as its Punjab president, marking a shift from the party’s earlier practice of appointing a Hindu leader in the Sikh-majority state. By picking Dhillon, a Jat Sikh, the BJP has made a significant political move less than a…
Chandigarh: BJP national executive member and former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday voiced his resentment at the appointment of his former Congress colleague Kewal Singh Dhillon as Punjab BJP president.On Dhillon being projected as BJP’s Jat Sikh face, Amarinder told TOI that it was time to move past castes, and expressed his…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Thursday appointed Kewal Singh Dhillon, a Jat Sikh from the politically decisive Malwa region, its Punjab president, signalling its ambitious outreach to Sikhs as the state gears up for assembly polls and named Union minister Harsh Malhotra its Delhi unit president as part of top-level changes it made in four states,…
The BJP has announced new state unit chiefs, appointing Union minister Harsh Malhotra (L) as the president of its Delhi unit and Kewal Singh Dhillon (R) for Punjab. NEW DELHI: The BJP on Thursday announced a fresh round of organisational appointments across several states, naming Union minister Harsh Malhotra as the new chief of the…
