Panaji, June 9 (IANS) After much speculation, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was Sunday named chairman of the BJP campaign committee for the Lok Sabha election scheduled for 2014.

The announcement was made by party president Rajnath Singh at the end of the party's two-day national executive committee, which saw heavy wrangling between a section backed by party patriarch L.K. Advani, who was opposing Modi's ascent, and another group backing Modi's candidature.

He told the media that he had decided to make Modi chairman of the campaign committee with a view to take the party to victory in the coming Lok Sabha battle.

"Whatever has happened has happened with everyone's backing," Rajnath Singh added, in an apparent reference to reports that the BJP appeared to be divided over Modi.

"Coming Lok Sabha polls are a big challenge. We are going in to win. Keeping the campaign in mind, I have appointed Narendra Modi as the head of the campaign committee for the general elections," Singh said.

"The decision has been taken on the base of consensus. We are sure the BJP will lead the next government," Singh told the media outside the venue of the BJP conclave.

The BJP president was accompanied by Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Ananth Kumar.