Chandigarh, Sept. 24 -- In a setback for senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sanjay Tandon, the party has dropped him as Himachal Pradesh co-in-charge in its latest organisational reshuffle, replacing him with Rajya Sabha member Darshana Singh.

The party on Wednesday appointed Singh to the post while retaining Srikant Sharma as the state in-charge. Tandon figures nowhere in the fresh list of state in-charges and co-in-charges announced by the party's national leadership.

The changes come ahead of the Himachal assembly elections, due in 2027, and a little over two years after Tandon was reappointed the state co-in-charge in July 2024. He was first appointed to the post in 2020. Under his watch, the party lost the state assembly el...