<p>Raipur: MLA Kiran Singh Deo was on Friday declared elected unopposed as the Chhattisgarh BJP president for a second term.</p>.<p>BJP general secretary Vinod Tawde, who oversaw the poll to pick the party’s state unit chief, announced Deo’s election during a programme here at Kushabhau Thakre Parisar, their state office.</p>.<p>Deo, 63, expressed gratitude to the party's national and state leadership, as well as its members, for entrusting him, a worker from the Bastar region, with this responsibility once again. Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, his cabinet colleagues and senior party leaders were present at the event.</p>.<p>After the BJP registered a landslide victory in the last Chhattisgarh assembly elections, Deo, a first-time MLA, was appointed the party’s state unit president on December 21, 2023. This is his second term in the post.</p>.US Consulate in Bengaluru: 'No visa process yet, stop misleading people,' Priyank Kharge tells BJP MPs.<p>The legislator, who represents the Jagdalpur assembly seat in Bastar district and maintains a low profile, belongs to the Kshatriya community – a general category caste.</p>.<p>Before being appointed state unit president, the leader had donned many hats within the party over the last two and a half decades. He is known for his ability to take people along.</p>.<p>Deo started his political journey as the president of the students’ union of the Government PG College in Jagdalpur in 1985-86. In 1998, he became the Bastar district unit vice president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, BJP’s youth wing, and became the president of the same unit in 2002.</p>.<p>That year, he was elevated to the position of BJP’s Bastar district unit president. Deo then served in various capacities in the BJP’s state unit.</p>.<p>In 2009, he was elected as the mayor of the Jagdalpur Municipal Corporation. From 2018 to 2022, he served as the general secretary of the BJP’s state unit. </p>
<p>Raipur: MLA Kiran Singh Deo was on Friday declared elected unopposed as the Chhattisgarh BJP president for a second term.</p>.<p>BJP general secretary Vinod Tawde, who oversaw the poll to pick the party’s state unit chief, announced Deo’s election during a programme here at Kushabhau Thakre Parisar, their state office.</p>.<p>Deo, 63, expressed gratitude to the party's national and state leadership, as well as its members, for entrusting him, a worker from the Bastar region, with this responsibility once again. Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, his cabinet colleagues and senior party leaders were present at the event.</p>.<p>After the BJP registered a landslide victory in the last Chhattisgarh assembly elections, Deo, a first-time MLA, was appointed the party’s state unit president on December 21, 2023. This is his second term in the post.</p>.US Consulate in Bengaluru: 'No visa process yet, stop misleading people,' Priyank Kharge tells BJP MPs.<p>The legislator, who represents the Jagdalpur assembly seat in Bastar district and maintains a low profile, belongs to the Kshatriya community – a general category caste.</p>.<p>Before being appointed state unit president, the leader had donned many hats within the party over the last two and a half decades. He is known for his ability to take people along.</p>.<p>Deo started his political journey as the president of the students’ union of the Government PG College in Jagdalpur in 1985-86. In 1998, he became the Bastar district unit vice president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, BJP’s youth wing, and became the president of the same unit in 2002.</p>.<p>That year, he was elevated to the position of BJP’s Bastar district unit president. Deo then served in various capacities in the BJP’s state unit.</p>.<p>In 2009, he was elected as the mayor of the Jagdalpur Municipal Corporation. From 2018 to 2022, he served as the general secretary of the BJP’s state unit. </p>