Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani was today elected to the newly-created post of chairman of the party’s Parliamentary Party in the first step towards a generational change in the organisational hierarchy. The 82-year-old leader was chosen at a meeting of party MPs, which amended the Constitution of the BJP Parliamentary Party to create the post, paving the way for election of Sushma Swaraj as the next leader of the BJP in the Lok Sabha and to be its Leader of the Opposition. Advani, who was given the power to appoint leaders of the party in both the Houses of Parliament named Swaraj (57) to the post he held till now now.