Assembly polls: Jaitley made in-charge of Gujarat Javadekar gets Karnataka

24 August, Mumbai

head of assembly polls in Gujarat, BJP President Amit Shah Thursday appointed senior party leader and Union Minister Arun Jaitley as the election in-charge of the State.

Jaitley will be assisted by Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Dr Jitendra Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman and P P Choudhary to manage the poll affairs.

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar will be in-charge of Karnataka poll affairs while Union Minister Minister Piyush Goyal will be co-in charge. Party leader and Union Minister Thawarchand Gehlot will be election in-charge of Himachal Pradesh.

The assembly polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh are due later this year while Karnataka will go to poll next year.