Tala Marandi appointed Jharkhand BJP chief
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday appointed Tala Marandi as the party’s Jharkhand unit President. The 52-year-old leader, who is also an MLA from the state, replaces Ravindra Kumar Rai, who is a Member of Parliament from Koderma, Jharkhand. Marandi, who was earlier a member of Congress, had joined the BJP in 2003.