Satish Poonia was the Rajasthan BJP president for most of the period when the party was out of power in the state. After over three years as president, when he continuously attacked the Gehlot government, he was replaced by incumbent state BJP president CP Joshi in early 2023. He is currently the deputy Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Rajasthan Assembly.
While Poonia is a first-time MLA, his association with the ABVP, BJYM and BJP goes back to the early ’80s. Poonia is known to be close to the RSS and has previously held posts such as the state president of the BJYM and general secretary of the BJP.
After unsuccessfully contesting a few Assembly elections, he won from Amer in 2018, the year the Raje government was voted out. Shortly after that he was appointed the state BJP president.
As president, he remained in the news for his cold war with Raje, during which period he expelled Raje supporters such as Rohitash Sharma for indiscipline and sidelined her supporters, while giving important party posts to her detractors like Madan Dilawar.
Poonia belongs to the Jat community, which is numerically the most dominant caste in Rajasthan. He will once again contest from Amer.
BJP has replaced its Rajasthan president Satish Poonia with its Lok Sabha MP from Chittorgarh, Chandra Prakash Joshi. Poonia is now the second anti-Raje voice to be sidelined from organisation.
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"Whenever such an incident happens where people from two communities are involved, people associate it with caste or sects while a criminal has no caste," says BJP state president Satish Poonia.
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BJP state president Satish Poonia said that the Narendra Modi government at the Center is making the youth self-reliant through skill development and startups.
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