BJP appoints union ministers as incharges for upcoming state polls

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BJP on Friday appointed several Union ministers as election in-charges for four states — Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Telangana. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi was appointed as BJP's Rajasthan in-charge and former Gujarat deputy CM Nitin Patel was named the co-in-charge. In Chhattisgarh, senior party leader Om Prakash Mathur was made the incharge while Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya was named the co-incharge. Former Union minister Prakash Javadekar was made the election incharge for Telangana with Sunil Bansal as the co-incharge. For Madhya Pradesh, Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav was named election in-charge, and Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw the co-incharge.

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Both Mathur and Bansal are also state in-charge of Chhattisgarh and Telangana, respectively, and it is perhaps the first time when state in-charges have also been given work as poll in-charge. For MP, the BJP has opted for Yadav, an able poll manager with track record of managing Gujarat, Bihar and Maharashtra. While for Rajasthan, party has opted for Joshi, to use his floor management skills of being parliamentary affairs minister, to manage ego clashes between BJP’s senior leaders in the state. In Telangana, where the tussle among BJP leaders is out in open, the BJP has appointed an experience leader in Javadekar and a successful organisation man in Bansal. For Chhattisgarh, BJP has opted for Mathur, an experienced election management hand along with Mandaviya who recently managed