Bhopal, July 2 -- A senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and legislator from Betul, Hemant Khandelwal, has been officially appointed as the new state president of the party in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday.

He has been elected unopposed after emerging as the sole candidate for the post during the nomination process held at the party's state headquarters in Bhopal on Tuesday.

Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who was appointed as the party election in-charge, supervised the formal proceedings.

"Yesterday, nomination papers for the post were being filed, and only one nomination was made, though I waited here thinking that another nomination might be filed. But Madhya Pradesh set an example, and only one nomination was made, and ever...