NEW DELHI, Sep 26: Just ahead of the Bihar state Assembly elections and the expected by-elections to vacant seats in various state Assemblies in the coming months, the BJP national president J P Nadda on Saturday announced a new team of the party’s national office-bearers, replacing some key names and appointing Bengaluru MP Tejasvi Surya as the president of the party’s youth wing.
The national vice presidents of the party include Raman Singh, Vasundhara Raje, Mukul Roy, Baijayant Jay Panda, among others, while he also replaced some senior leaders like Ram Madhav, P Muralidhar Rao, Anil Jain and Saroj Pandey as general secretaries with new faces. The eight-member team of national general secretaries included Bhupender Yadav, Arun Singh, Kailash Vijayvargiya, Dushyant Kumar Gautam, D Purandareshwari, CT Ravi, Tarun Chugh and Dilip Saikia, besides BL Santosh as national general secretary (organisation).
Tejasvi Surya will be replacing Poonam Mahajan as the Yuva Morcha president.
Rajesh Agarwal has been appointed as the treasurer of the party, while Amit Malviya will continue to remain in-charge of the party’s national IT and social media.
The party has also increased the number of national spokespersons to 23, with Anil Baluni being the chief spokesperson and media in-charge.
Soon after the announcement of the new executive committee, the prime minister Narendra Modi congratulated the new team and said he was confident that they would uphold “the glorious tradition of our party of serving the people of India selflessly and with dedication. May they work hard to empower the poor and marginalised,” he added.
(Manas Dasgupta)
