Watch top evening news stories of the day | June 19, 2021

Former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Arvind Kumar Sharma has been appointed as the vice-president of Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

This brings to an end to speculations that Sharma, considered close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, would get a bigger responsibility in Uttar Pradesh ahead of next year’s assembly polls in the politically crucial state.

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