Aditya Sahu elected new president of Jharkhand BJP, seeks to protect tribal rights

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Newly appointed Jharkhand BJP President Aditya Sahu greets the gathering during the party's 'Sangathan Parv' event, successful  Ranchi connected  January 14, 2026.

Newly appointed Jharkhand BJP President Aditya Sahu greets the gathering during the party's 'Sangathan Parv' event, successful Ranchi connected January 14, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI

Rajya Sabha MP Aditya Sahu was connected Wednesday (January 14, 2026) elected the caller president of the absorption BJP successful Jharkhand, and asserted that the enactment would combat to support "jal, jangal and jamin" (water, wood and land) and rights of tribals.

Mr. Sahu replaced Babulal Marandi, who is the person of the assembly and a erstwhile Chief Minister.

Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram, the party's in-charge for the organisational elections of the authorities unit, officially announced Mr. Sahu's appointment.

"I received lone 1 information for the station of the authorities president. After scrutiny and support from the nationalist president, I state Aditya Sahu arsenic the president of Jharkhand BJP," helium said.

Mr. Oram said the enactment would beryllium strengthened nether the enactment of Mr. Sahu and that the BJP would erstwhile again signifier its authorities successful the authorities successful the future.

The BJP had appointed Mr. Sahu arsenic the moving president of its Jharkhand portion connected October 3. Mr. Oram besides announced the names of the members for the nationalist assembly from the state.

Among the salient leaders who were elected for the 21 nationalist assembly subordinate posts from the authorities are erstwhile CMs Arjun Munda, Raghubar Das, Madhu Kora and Champai Soren, MPs Sanjay Seth and Deepak Prakash, Union curate Annapurna Devi, and erstwhile MPs Karia Munda and Geeta Kora.

On the occasion, Mr. Sahu said, “I volition enactment each infinitesimal of my beingness to the organisation. There is simply a excavation of experienced leaders successful the authorities organisation. With their support, I volition effort to instrumentality the enactment forward.”

He said they are not hurry to signifier a authorities but are acrophobic implicit the rising corruption, loot, influx of infiltrators and deteriorating instrumentality and bid situation.

“Murder, abduction and loot person go a regular improvement nether the authorities of the JMM-led confederation government. The tribals are feeling unsafe owed to the execution of leaders similar Surya Hansda and Soma Munda.”

“Jal, jangal and jamin (water, wood and land) are being looted. We person to combat to support them and the rights of tribals,” Mr. Sahu said.

The outgoing president Babulal Marandi said that the BJP would beryllium stronger successful the authorities nether the enactment of Mr. Sahu.

“We person been engaged successful Sanghathan Parv (organizational festival) for the past one-year, which was a challenging task. From the assignment of booth-level members to mounting up booth, Mandal, territory and authorities level committees were done during past 1 year. Now, we each person to enactment to fortify the party,” said the person of the opposition.

Published - January 14, 2026 07:10 p.m. IST

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