Srinagar, Nov 3: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has appointed Sat Sharma as the president of the party in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, following the recent Assembly election results in the region.
Sharma will be taking over from Ravinder Raina, who has been appointed as the National Executive member of the party.
Sat Sharma was appointed the working president of the J&K BJP on September 9 of this year.
The announcement came through an official notice issued by BJP National General Secretary Arun Singh.
Sharma has been a former minister in the previous BJP-PDP government, representing the Jammu west constituency after winning in the 2014 assembly elections. He held the Housing and Urban Development portfolio.
The BJP had won 29 seats in the recently concluded Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections.
