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\nThe BJP today set the ball rolling for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, appointing election in-charge for Chandigarh and 17 states, including Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Himachal, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Telangana.<\/p>\n
Haryana Finance Minister Capt Abhimanyu has been give the charge for Chandigarh as well as Punjab where the BJP usually contests three of 13 seats, leaving the rest for SAD.<\/p>\n
Union Minister Thawarchand Gehlot will oversee party\u2019s preparations in Uttarakhand which has five LS seats while seasoned leader Tirth Singh Rawat will take care of HP\u2019s four constituencies.<\/p>\n
For Uttar Pradesh, which sends as many 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha and where regional parties such as Mayawati-led BSP and Akhilesh Yadav\u2019s SP pose a serious challenge to BJP\u2019s prospects, party president Amit Shah has picked his three key men Gujarat leader Govardhan Jhadapia, party vice-president Dushyant Gautam and former Cabinet Minister from Madhya Pradesh Narottam Mishra.<\/p>\n
In the three states of the Hindi heartland the BJP lost to the Congress, Shah has appointed Union Minister Prakash Javadekar and Sudhanshu Trivedi for Rajasthan , UP minister Sawantra Dev Singh and Delhi leader Satish Upadhyay for Madhya Pradesh and Haryana leader and general secretary Anil Jain for Chhattisgarh .<\/p>\n
Senior party leader Om Prakash Mathur has been given the charge for Gujarat and Rajya Sabha member V Muraleedharan and party secretary Deodhar Rao of Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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