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On Tuesday, the Bharatiya Janata Party appointed Sunil Jacquard as president of Punjab, replacing Ashwani Sharma. Jacquard, a Hindu face, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in May last year and was appointed to its National Executive Office in December last year.
Apart from Jacquard, BJP too New party bosses announced states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand on Tuesday as part of an organizational restructuring.
A former chairman of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, Jacquard had resigned from Congress to join the BJP after the 2022 Punjab elections.
He was clearly central to the BJP’s plans in Punjab when he was selected to be part of a five-member panel formed to conduct an inquiry into violence during the party’s Nabana rally in Kolkata last year before he was recruited into the BJP. executive. This was the first major assignment for Jakar, the only party leader from Punjab on the committee.
Jakir’s father, the late Balram Jakir, was a staunch loyalist of the Gandhi family. The longest serving Lok Sabha Speaker, Balram Jakir, has also served as Governor of Madhya Pradesh.
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