<p>Making changes in the organisational set-up after the party moved from Opposition to treasury benches, the BJP on Friday appointed Chandrashekar Bawankule as the Maharashtra president. </p>.<p>Ashish Shelar will be his Mumbai counterpart.<br /><br />Bawankule (53) is a veteran OBC leader from Vidarbha while Shelar (49) is a firebrand leader from Mumbai.<br /><br />Bawankule replaced Chandrakant Patil and Shelar would come in place of Mangalprabhat Lodha.<br /><br />Both Patil and Lodha have been made cabinet ministers in the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government in Maharashtra.<br /><br />The appointment of Bawankule and Shelar were notified by BJP’s national general secretary Arun Singh.</p>
<p>Making changes in the organisational set-up after the party moved from Opposition to treasury benches, the BJP on Friday appointed Chandrashekar Bawankule as the Maharashtra president. </p>.<p>Ashish Shelar will be his Mumbai counterpart.<br /><br />Bawankule (53) is a veteran OBC leader from Vidarbha while Shelar (49) is a firebrand leader from Mumbai.<br /><br />Bawankule replaced Chandrakant Patil and Shelar would come in place of Mangalprabhat Lodha.<br /><br />Both Patil and Lodha have been made cabinet ministers in the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government in Maharashtra.<br /><br />The appointment of Bawankule and Shelar were notified by BJP’s national general secretary Arun Singh.</p>
