New Delhi, March 23 -- Former Union IT Minister and technocrat-turned-politician Rajeev Chandrasekhar will be appointed the next president of Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Kerala unit.

Chandrasekhar officially filed his nomination for the post on March 23. K Surendran, the current president of the saffron party's Kerala unit, announced this on X.

The BJP's core committee took the decision to pick Chandrasekhar to lead the party's Kerala unit at a meeting in Thiruvananthapuram on March 23. The meeting was attended by the party's Kerala in-charge Prakash Javadekar and co-in-charge Aparjita Sarangi, a Lok Sabha Member of Parliament, according to reports.

Chandrasekhar was among the probables to the post as Surendran completed his five-ye...