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India's main opposition party gets new leader
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NEW DELHI – India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party appointed a low-key politician from western India as its new president Saturday, seven months after being defeated in national elections for a second time in a row.
Nitin Gadkari, 52, was leader of the Hindu nationalist party's Maharashtra wing before he was appointed the new party leader.
"I work for the poor and downtrodden sections of society who don't have food to eat, homes to live in or clothes to wear," he told reporters in New Delhi.
Gadkari replaced Rajnath Singh, 58, a senior politician from India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, who had led the party for nearly four years.
The BJP led a coalition government from 1998 to 2004 but then lost to its main rival, the centrist Congress party, in the last two national elections.
Gadkari's appointment comes a day after the BJP replaced 82-year-old Lal Krishna Advani as the leader of the opposition in India's parliament. He was replaced by Sushma Swaraj, 57, a fiery orator and long time party member.
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