Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh, who rejoined the Bharatiya Janata Party last week, was on Wednesday made in charge of the party's election committee in the state for the coming Lok Sabha polls.

"Singh will head an 11-member election committee in Uttar Pradesh to oversee the poll preparations and other details in the state," BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu said in New Delhi after the launching of the Ajiwan Sahayog Yojana by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Singh, who had merged his Rashtriya Kranti Party with the BJP, had also attended the BJP national council in New Delhi on February 6.