India, Dec. 2 -- Five months after taking charge as Madhya Pradesh BJP president, Hemant Khandelwal is slowly but decisively emerging as a quiet yet effective organisational stabiliser.

His rise has surprised many within the party who initially doubted whether his soft-spoken persona could command a state unit as vast, complex and politically dynamic as Madhya Pradesh. Yet today, his imprint is unmistakable - not crafted through confrontation or dramatic assertion, but through steady administrative discipline and a deliberate effort to mend longstanding divides within the party.

One of Khandelwal's most consequential interventions has been the revival of a long-discussed but inconsistently implemented mechanism to ensure ministerial acc...