New Delhi, July 2 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party is on a spree of electing presidents of its state units - a process that paves the way for electing the saffron party's new national president, replacing JP Nadda.

Since its internal polls started last year, the party has elected as many as nine new state heads and held elections for 28 states and union territories.

However, the election of the national president will be conducted only after the successful completion of elections in key states like Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Delhi, and Haryana, among others.

Here are nine new state presidents of the BJP:

A four-term MLA from Dombivali, Ravindra Chavan replaced Chandrashekhar Bawankule as Maharashtra BJP president. Chavan has been...