New Delhi: BJP appointed Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh as central observers on Monday for Government formation in the four states, which won recent elections. The recent results of five State Assembly elections, the BJP won Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Manipur, and on its own it touched the halfway mark in Goa. Punjab was won by the AAP.

BJP parliamentary board, its apex decision making body, appointed Amit Shah as the central observer for Uttar Pradesh and party Vice President Raghubar Das as co-observer. Rajnath Singh along with co-observer Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi has been assigned to oversee the selection of the leader of the legislature party in Uttarakhand.

Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Narendra Singh Tomar have been appointed as observers for selection of the leader of the legislature party in Manipur. Union Minister Kiren Rijiju is the co-observer for Manipur and his cabinet colleague L Murgan is the co-observer for Goa.