Musheerabad MLA Laxman is Telangana BJP President Now

Hyderabad: Senior BJP leader and Musheerabad MLA Dr. K. Laxman has been appointed as the party's Telangana state president.Party's central leadership appointed new presidents for five state units - Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Punjab.

The outgoing president G. Kishan Reddy's term was over long back and the party high command was also not so happy with his performance.
Despite a traditional cadre base in Telangana for decades, BJP could hardly make its presence felt in the 2014 Assembly elections and also in subsequent municipal elections, especially in recent GHMC elections. The party has five seats in the Assembly and Laxman is the leader of the legislative party.

A second time MLA, Laxman represented the same Musheerabad constituency during 1999-2004. He was the president of the city BJP from 1995 to 99 and received doctorate from geology after completing his M.Sc. from Osmania University.     

BJP has also appointed new presidents in a few other states - Tapir Gao in Arunachal Pradesh, Keshav Prasad Maurya in Uttar Pradesh and BS Yeddyurappa in Karnataka.

However, Visakhapatnam MP and Bharatiya Janata Party Andhra Pradesh unit president K. Haribabu will continue in his position.