Overview

• Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will oversee the conclusion of Madhya Pradesh BJP’s state president election on July 2 with nominations filed the previous day.
• N. Ramchander Rao was finalised by the BJP central leadership to become Telangana’s state party president in a single-nomination process.
• Goshamahal MLA T. Raja Singh resigned from the BJP after being denied an opportunity to file his nomination for the Telangana president post.
• Congress general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala has begun one-on-one meetings with Karnataka Congress legislators to address growing factional demands for a chief ministerial change.
• Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has emphasised that decisions on leadership changes, including any Karnataka chief minister shuffle, rest solely with the party high command.