Ranchi: Veteran Leader Babulal Marandi has been appointed as the new Jharkhand State BJP President. Bharatiya Janata Party’s national president JP Nadda has appointment of state president.
According to the letter issued related to the announcement of the state president will come into force with immediate effect. Babulal Marandi was working as a teacher before joining politics.
He was working as a teacher in a primary school located in Deori, Giridih. Since then he took the path of politics. He came in contact with the Sangh Parivar. In the year 1990, Babulal Marandi was given the responsibility of organization minister of Santhal Pargana. In the year 1999, he was also made a Union Minister in Atal Vajpayee’s government.
Babulal Marandi became the first Chief Minister of Jharkhand in 2000 when the state of Jharkhand was separated. Then in the year 2003, due to opposition in the party, he had to leave the post of Chief Minister. In the year 2006, he left BJP and formed his own party named Jharkhand Vikas Morcha.
Contested elections from Jharkhand Vikas Morcha in the years 2009, 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections and assembly elections.