NEW DELHI: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Rajnath Singh is slated to be the next BJP president. TV reports say that the RSS has accepted the Rajnath's appointment.
According to TV reports, NitinGadkari has proposed Rajnath Singh's name for the post during the meeting at ArunJaitely's house.
Earlier, high drama unfolded in the BJP on the eve of election of a new party president with Yashwant Sinha procuring a nomination form.
Gadkari, who shared the stage at a party programme in Utan in Maharashtra with senior leader L K Advani, will reach the capital tonight. He will file his nomination papers tomorrow and is likely to be declared elected unopposed, party sources said.
Sinha created a flutter this evening when he procured a nomination form and voters' list from chief electoral officer, Thawar Chand Gehlot. Advani declined to answer newsmen's questions as to whether Sinha, a former Union minister, is in the race.
Confirming this, Gehlot said Sinha is the only person to have taken the form from him till now. However, he hastened to add that the forms are easily available on the party website and state headquarters of the BJP.
Earlier in the day, Mahesh Jethmalani said he is being denied a nomination form to prevent him from contesting.
Party veterans point out that despite all the pretence of an election of the BJP president, the stringent provisions of the party Constitution will make it difficult for the forms of Sinha and Jethmalani to be accepted.
A candidate for the BJP presidential poll should have been an active member of the party for 12 consecutive years and an ordinary member for 15 years. He would also need atleast 20 proposers each from five different state units, which adds upto 100.
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