In order to quell rebellion by the disgruntled party leaders in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP on Monday appointed senior leaders to election committees.
BJP president J P Nadda appointed former J&K BJP chief Sat Sharma as working president of the unit.
Two former Deputy Chief Ministers Nirmal Singh and Kavinder Gupta were appointed as chiefs of the campaign committee and election management committee, respectively.
Nadda also appointed Choudhary Sukhnandan as vice president of the election campaign committee.
All the four leaders are senior leaders of J&K BJP and all of them along with few others have been denied ticket by the party to contest the first Assembly polls in J&K post Article 370 abrogation.
The discontent in the ranks of BJP had grown after the BJP released its list of candidates for polls and denied mandate to several senior leaders.
Two senior BJP leaders Chandra Mohan Sharma, who was associated with the BJP for over 50 years, and Kashmir Singh, former chief of the party’s Jammu unit have quit the party. Both are contesting as an independent candidates.
The new appointments are part of the series of actions taken by the BJP’s high command as it faces headwinds in the Assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir.
“It is an effort to quell rebellion, and get the party to unite and fight the poll. These are historic polls and first after Article 370 abrogation and we have to focus on the polls,” a BJP leader said.