<p>Bhopal: Legislator Hemant Kumar Khandelwal was on Wednesday declared elected as the new president of the Madhya Pradesh BJP unit in the presence of senior party leaders.</p>.<p>Khandelwal was the sole candidate to file his nomination papers on Tuesday for the post of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Madhya Pradesh unit chief.</p>.<p>Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday declared Khandelwal, the MLA from Betul, as the new state BJP head.</p>.Rajya Sabha MP Mahendra Bhatt re-elected as president of Uttarakhand BJP.<p>Khajuraho MP and outgoing state BJP chief Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Union ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Virendra Kumar, among others, were present on the occasion.</p>.<p>Sharma held the top organisational post in the state since 2020.</p>.<p>Earlier on Tuesday, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, who was Khandelwal's proposer, submitted the nomination papers at the state BJP office.</p>.<p>Hemant Khandelwal's father Vijay Kumar Khandelwal was a four-term Lok Sabha member from Betul. After his father's death in 2007, Hemant Khandelwal contested from Betul in a by-election and entered the Lok Sabha for the first time.</p>.<p>He also served as the Betul district president of the BJP from 2010 to 2013 and was MLA from Betul from 2013 to 2018.</p>.<p>Hemant Khandelwal was again elected from the seat in the 2023 assembly polls.</p>.<p>He had also served as treasurer of the state BJP, and is currently president of the Kushabhau Thakre Trust, a body linked to the saffron outfit. </p>
<p>Bhopal: Legislator Hemant Kumar Khandelwal was on Wednesday declared elected as the new president of the Madhya Pradesh BJP unit in the presence of senior party leaders.</p>.<p>Khandelwal was the sole candidate to file his nomination papers on Tuesday for the post of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Madhya Pradesh unit chief.</p>.<p>Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday declared Khandelwal, the MLA from Betul, as the new state BJP head.</p>.Rajya Sabha MP Mahendra Bhatt re-elected as president of Uttarakhand BJP.<p>Khajuraho MP and outgoing state BJP chief Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Union ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Virendra Kumar, among others, were present on the occasion.</p>.<p>Sharma held the top organisational post in the state since 2020.</p>.<p>Earlier on Tuesday, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, who was Khandelwal's proposer, submitted the nomination papers at the state BJP office.</p>.<p>Hemant Khandelwal's father Vijay Kumar Khandelwal was a four-term Lok Sabha member from Betul. After his father's death in 2007, Hemant Khandelwal contested from Betul in a by-election and entered the Lok Sabha for the first time.</p>.<p>He also served as the Betul district president of the BJP from 2010 to 2013 and was MLA from Betul from 2013 to 2018.</p>.<p>Hemant Khandelwal was again elected from the seat in the 2023 assembly polls.</p>.<p>He had also served as treasurer of the state BJP, and is currently president of the Kushabhau Thakre Trust, a body linked to the saffron outfit. </p>