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Sat Sharma is new J&K BJP president 12/20/2015 11:45:44 PM Jammu Dec 20: Senior leader and party MLA Sat Sharma was on Sunday appointed the new BJP state president after he was unanimously elected for the top party post. Sat Sharma, MLA from Jammu West assembly constituency, was elected unopposed by executive members of BJP as new president at a function held at party headquarters Jammu. He replaces Jugal Kishore Sharma, the sitting member Parliament of the party from Jammu Poonch seat, as BJP head in Jammu and Kashmir. The change in leadership comes at a time when the state is gearing up for urban local and other civic bodies, dates for which are yet to be announced. The party has recently appointed new state chiefs in Kerala, Assam and West Bengal, the three states going to assembly polls in the first half of the next year. Sharma had earlier contested and won the Jammu West Assembly seat with over 50,000 votes. He has also played a major role in party's victory in the recently concluded elections to the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC). A chartered accountant by profession, Sharma was earlier the vice president of the party in Jammu and Kashmir. Soon after his election Sharma said he would work to further strengthen the party at the grassroots level. "I will follow the footsteps of my predecessors and would work towards strengthening the party at the grassroots level," Sharma told party workers soon after his election. The party is posed to face a litmus test in the upcoming elections to the civic bodies in the state. "My priorities would include making the party victorious in the upcoming elections of the elections to the civic bodies in the state," Sharma said.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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