BJP General Secy Arun Singh appointed as Karnataka state incharge

Senior BJP General Secretary Arun Singh will be the new party in-charge of Karnataka while former Karnataka Minister C T Ravi will handle three states, including the poll-bound Tamil Nadu and politically crucial Maharashtra.

The announcement came on Friday night as BJP president J P Nadda approved the list of in-charges and co-in-charges of state units as well as for the frontal organisations.

Singh will be replacing Murlidhar Rao, who will now handle Madhya Pradesh though he along with Ram Madhav was dropped as General Secretaries by Nadda recently. Madhav has not found a space in the list of in-charges.

BJP Telangana leader D K Aruna will be co-in-charge in Karnataka. Singh will also look after Rajasthan as well as the Other Backward Class wing of the party.

For 53-year-old Ravi, who was recently appointed General Secretary, it was a huge leg up as the party chief reposed faith in him and assigned him the poll-bound Tamil Nadu as well as Maharashtra. Besides, he will also look after party affairs in Goa as well as the Scheduled Caste Morcha.

Ravi had resigned from B S Yediyurappa government after he was appointed General Secretary.