The Hindu : Fresh search for new BJP chief for State unit

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Monday, Jul 14, 2003

Southern States

Southern States - Andhra Pradesh

Fresh search for new BJP chief for State unit

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD July 13. A fresh search for the new State president of the BJP will be made on Monday when the national secretary of the party, L. Ganesan, arrives here to gather the views of senior functionaries on the choice of the candidate. Mr. Ganesan will meet the State office-bearers, MLAs and other senior leaders in the party, sources said. His effort will be to find a consensus candidate for the post in the election scheduled for September 15.

Incidentally, this is the second time Mr. Ganesan, in-charge of AP affairs, has been assigned the job by the party to find a replacement for the incumbent president, C. Ramachandra Reddy, whose three-year term expired two months ago and is continuing in the post only because his successor has not been chosen. Mr. Reddy got a lease over the post till September after it became clear that the organisational polls of the party, which started sometime in April and were supposed to culminate with the election of the president in June, would have to be staggered as there was no consensus for the top post.

The initial indication that the Union Minister of State for Railways, Bandaru Dattatreya, would fill the post as there was a consensus around his name when Mr. Ganesan undertook a similar exercise on the first occasion fell through with the Minister's unwillingness to accept the offer.

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