New Delhi, Jan. 23: Former Uttar Pradesh CM and Senior BJP leader, Rajnath Singh, was elected unanimously as the party's 12th president on Wednesday. Singh was left as the sole candidate in the fray after outgoing Nitin Gadkari opted out of the presidential race.
Gadkari decided to quit in the wake of the charges of
financial wrong doing leveled against him.
Singh, who has been elected for the second time, will face the challenges of internal rift and reviving the party fortunes in the upcoming Lok Sabha election due in May 2014.
Who is Rajnath Singh?
62 year-old veteran BJP leader, Singh, belongs to Chandauli district
of Uttar Pradesh. He has been
associated with the RSS since the age of 13. Singh, who is also Post Graduate in Physics, before joining to politics was a physics lecturer in the K
B Post graduate degree college, Mirzapur in 1971.
In 1991, he became Education Minister in the first BJP
government in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Later he became the
Chief Minister of state for 2 years from 28 October 2000 to 8
March 2002.
In 2005, following the resignation of Lal Krishna Advani, he
was unanimously elected as the BJP's National President. He was re-elected for the post in November 2006. He handed over the presidentship to the RSS backed Nitin
Gadkar in year 2009 after the party's poor performance in Lok Sabha election.
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