Rohtak, May 28 -- The state government has appointed advocate Shankar Lal Dhopra, 65, as the new chairman of the Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH) in Bhiwani. He assumed charge on Wednesday.

Dhopra, a former president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Bhiwani district unit, replaces Pawan Kumar, a former Government PG College principal who took charge in March last year.

According to the order issued on Tuesday night by Vijay Singh Dahiya, the principal secretary to the school education department, the governor of Haryana, Ashim Kumar Ghosh, formalised Dhopra's appointment.

Born in Bhiwani in 1961, Dhopra is a practicing lawyer who completed his early schooling locally before earning his LLB from Jaipur University. His polit...