Former cabinet minister and Haridwar MLA Madan Kaushik has been made the Bharatiya Janata Party state president. The party’s national president JP Nadda’s decision to replace the previous BJP state president Banshidhar Bhagat with Kaushik came as a surprise to some till Bhagat was sworn in as a cabinet minister in the evening.
After being made the party’s state president, Kaushik said that the organisation and government will work in coordination. Efforts of the disciplined and dedicated party cadre will ensure a victory in the coming assembly elections, he added.
Born on January 11, 1965 at Imlikheda in Roorkee, Kaushik was elected the students union president at Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalay in 1985-86 where he secured a BSc degree before becoming the Haridwar district coordinator of Bajrang Dal. Later in 2000 he became the Haridwar district general secretary of the BJP and then the district head of the party. He was first elected to the Vidhan Sabha in 2002 and then again in 2007. In the state cabinet from 2007 to 2012 he was the minister of school education, excise, urban development, sugar cane development, tourism, culture, education and sugar cane industry.
In 2012, he was made the BJP state vice president and in the same year he was elected for the third time to the Vidhan Sabha. Later, in 2015 Kaushik was also a member of the BJP national executive. Then, in 2017 he was elected for the fourth time to the Vidhan Sabha. In the state cabinet under previous chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, Kaushik was the minister of urban development and housing, in addition to being made the state government spokesman.
Saturday, 13 March 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
