<p>Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today welcomed the certain elevation of Rajnath Singh as BJP president, saying he has always been associated with farmers which would benefit the party.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"I called up Shri Rajnath Singh ji and congratulated him. He brings with him vast experience of both organisation and administration," Modi tweeted on social networking site twitter.<br /><br />"Rajnath Singhji served as Agriculture Minister in Atalji's Govt. He has always been associated with the farmers. BJP will gain from this," he said in a second tweet. The BJP Parliamentary Board earlier met today to discuss the new developments.<br /><br />BJP General Secretary Ananth Kumar told reporters that in the meeting senior BJP leader L K Advani moved a resolution appreciating the good work done by the outgoing President Nitin Gadkari.<br /><br />The resolution praising the dynamism, good work and open mindedness" of Gadkari was adopted unanimously, Kumar said.<br /><br />Gadkari, facing allegations of dubious funding of his company, was last night forced out of the race for BJP President's post and Rajnath Singh emerged the consensus choice for the office.<br /><br />Gadkari had issued a statement opting out of the election, saying he did not want that allegations against him should in any way adversely affect the interests of BJP.<br /><br />62-year-old Rajnath, who had preceded Gadkari as BJP president till 2009, emerged the new choice of the party at a hurriedly-called meeting of top leaders including Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, M Venkaiah Naidu and RSS representative Ram Lal last night.</p>
<p>Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today welcomed the certain elevation of Rajnath Singh as BJP president, saying he has always been associated with farmers which would benefit the party.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"I called up Shri Rajnath Singh ji and congratulated him. He brings with him vast experience of both organisation and administration," Modi tweeted on social networking site twitter.<br /><br />"Rajnath Singhji served as Agriculture Minister in Atalji's Govt. He has always been associated with the farmers. BJP will gain from this," he said in a second tweet. The BJP Parliamentary Board earlier met today to discuss the new developments.<br /><br />BJP General Secretary Ananth Kumar told reporters that in the meeting senior BJP leader L K Advani moved a resolution appreciating the good work done by the outgoing President Nitin Gadkari.<br /><br />The resolution praising the dynamism, good work and open mindedness" of Gadkari was adopted unanimously, Kumar said.<br /><br />Gadkari, facing allegations of dubious funding of his company, was last night forced out of the race for BJP President's post and Rajnath Singh emerged the consensus choice for the office.<br /><br />Gadkari had issued a statement opting out of the election, saying he did not want that allegations against him should in any way adversely affect the interests of BJP.<br /><br />62-year-old Rajnath, who had preceded Gadkari as BJP president till 2009, emerged the new choice of the party at a hurriedly-called meeting of top leaders including Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, M Venkaiah Naidu and RSS representative Ram Lal last night.</p>