atal bihari vajpayee became the first president of the bhartiya janta party.
atal bihari vajpayee became the first president of the bhartiya janta party.
who became the first president of the bhartiya janta party?
atal bihari vajpayee
pradhan contested his first election in the year 1996, under the flag of bhartiya janta party, from khurja-noida, u.p. as his constituency. he won by great margins & became member of parliament for the said constituency. he broke all records in 1998, when he won by the highest margin in uttar pradesh and ranking in top ten in the country. he emerged a winner consecutively in the 11th, 12th, 13th & 14th lokh-sabha. during this period he presided over food & distribution ministry, labour & welfare ministry, human resources & development ministry and telecommunication & it ministry, as minister of state. during his term as the minister of state for telecommunication & it, headed by shri arun shaurie & under the reign of honourable shri atal bihari vajpayee, he was responsible to initiate the first mobile services ever in kashmir & the north east of india. he also held the position of national secretary of bjp.
ashok kumar pradhan
dhruv pratap singh became active in politics after he sought the membership of bhartiya janta party in 1980, and from the years 1988–2002 (14 years) he was the mandal adyaksh from badwara. dhruv pratap singh gained momentum in his political career in 1998, when bhartiya janta party nominated him as their candidate for the state elections from the badwara constituency in 1998, he lost the elections with a minor margin of 2000 votes to the congress candidate. in the 2003 state elections, bhartiya janta party nominated him again but from a different constituency, vijayraghavgarh as the party felt that he was more suited and could give stiff competition to the congress candidate, satyendra pathak, who apart from being a state minister was a powerful adversary. dhruv pratap singh defeated him by a huge margin of 13,000 votes, and become member of madhya pradesh legislative assembly in 2003 from the vijayraghavgarh (114) constituency. in the 2008 state elections, bjp nominated him for the third and for the second time from vijayraghavgarh constituency. he lost the elections to the congress candidate. following the defeat in the elections the party nominated him as the district party president of katni district, madhya pradesh in 2010, reaffirming their faith in him. the party held the belief that he is very popular and holds a lot of ground in both the constituencies, katni and vijayraghavgarh, which was upheld by the party nomination.
dhruv pratap singh