New Delhi:Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda on Saturday announced a new team of party's national office-bearers ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections.
In the new party, Nadda appointed BJP's national media co-in-charge Sanjay Mayukh, Shahnawaz Hussain and Rajiv Pratap Rudy as the national spokespersons, while Radha Mohan Singh has been made the national vice-president.
Nadda got rid of many old faces from Amit Shah's team including Shyam Jaju, Avinash Rai Khanna and Ram Madhav. Anil Jain, who was the general secretary of the party at the time of Shah, has also not been included in this new executive.
True to what ETV Bharat reported ealrier, Nadda has given importance to the youth and women representatives in his team.
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Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghuvar Das and MP Annapurna Devi have been appointed national vice-president, while Andaman and Nicobar in-charge and resident of Amritsar, Tarun Chugh has been promoted from national secretary to national general secretary.
Mukul Rai from Bengal has also been appointed as the vice-president, while Tejashwi Surya from the south has been made the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Yuva Morcha, a post earlier held by Poonam Mahajan.
Baijayant Jai Panda from Odisha and Dr Raman Singh, former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh have also been appointed as National Vice Presidents.
Rajkumar Chahar has been made the president of the Kisan Morcha, Bhupendra Yadav, Kailash Vijayvargiya and CT Ravi have also been appointed as the national general secretary of the party.
Bhupendra Yadav and Kailash Vijayvargiya were previously national general secretaries of the party. The trio of Dharmendra Pradhan, Bhupendra Yadav, and Kailash Vijayvargiya has been allowed by the party to remain in their previous posts.
Congratulating the new team, the Prime Minister tweeted that the leaders of this new team will help the party in maintaining the culture of service towards the country and will render services without any selfish interest to the poor and marginalized people.
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The special thing about the team is speculated that there might be a reshuffle in the IT cell, the in-charge of which has been continuously attacked by the MP Subramanian Swamy. However, this time he has been given double responsibility, both of the IT cell and social media.
Another speculation is being made that Ram Madhav can also be named in the party's parliamentary board.
National General Secretary Murlidhar Rao and GVL Narasimha have not been named in the new team, but BJP's Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni has been reappointed as the president of the media cell.
Altogether, BJP announced the names of 12 national vice-presidents, 8 national general ministers, one national general secretary organization, three national co-organizations, general ministers, 13 national ministers, 17 treasurers, and one central office secretary.