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 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 by Vijay Singh Dahiya, principal secretary to the school education department, governor 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 political career began as a student leader, which led to a role as vice-president of the Janata Party Yuva Morcha. He joined BJP in 1988 and steadily rose through the organisational ranks, serving as a mandal executive committee member and mandal vice-president by 1995. Over the next two decades, Dhopra held various responsibilities, including district secretary, district media in-charge, and state co-media in-charge. Following three terms as district general secretary, Dhopra was appointed state general secretary of the BJP Other Backward Classes (OBC) Morcha in 2015. On August 19, 2020, then state BJP chief Om Prakash Dhankhar appointed him Bhiwani district president. Dhopra's appointment came a day after Union minister and former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar's visit to Bhiwani on May 25....