BJP observers are expected to convene a meeting with the newly elected legislators to discuss and finalize the chief ministerial candidate for the state. Union Health Minister and BJP's Chhattisgarh co-incharge, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, have also joined the discussions in Raipur.
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Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi was appointed as BJP s Rajasthan in-charge and former Gujarat deputy CM Nitin Patel was named the co-in-charge. In Chhattisgarh, senior party leader Om Prakash Mathur was made the incharge while Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya was named the co-incharge. Former Union minister Prakash Javadekar was made the election incharge for Telangana with Sunil Bansal as the co-incharge.
The hands of a brain dead 52-year-old woman in Indore in Madhya Pradesh were donated for transplantation into a Mumbai-based teen girl, which a health official on Monday said was the first case of its kind in the state.