BJP president restructure national team; Nadda appointed state, unit incharges
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BJP national president JP Nadda on Friday announced its new team of state in-charges, unit in charges making a massive restructuring in the world’s largest political party. The appointments come a month after BJP chief JP Nadda announced a new team of party national office-bearers.
As per the party presidents new assignment list party vice-president Radha Mohan Singh appointed in-charge of politically crucial Uttar Pradesh.
Kailash Vijayvargiya will continue to be the in-charge of West Bengal and he will be assisted by BJP national secretary Arvind Menon and party national IT cell head Amit Malviya.
Bhupender Yadav will continue as the in-charge for Bihar and Gujarat and will be assisted by party national secretaries Harish Dwivedi and Anupam Hazara. Yadav is also made Kisan Morcha incharge.
Similarly, party national secretary Satya Kumar, Sunil Ojha and Sanjeev Chaurasia will assist Singh in UP. Singh will also look after the party’s work in Rajasthan. The BJP has appointed party vice-president Baijayant Panda as in-charge of Delhi and Assam, while its general secretary CT Ravi will be in-charge of Maharashtra, Goa and Tamil Nadu. CT Ravi is the new incharge of SC morcha.
BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh, who was earlier co-incharge for Delhi, will now look after the party’s work in Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Telangana. Tarun Chugh is the new yuva morcha cell incharge.
Former general secretary P Muralidhar Rao, who was looking after Karnataka, will now be in-charge of Madhya Pradesh, the statement said. Arun Singh, who was the in-charge of Odisha, replaces Rao. Arun Singh is the new head of BJP’s OBC cell.
Newly appointed general secretary D Purandeshwari will now look after the party’s work in Odisha and will also be the in-charge of Chhattisgarh.
Party general secretary Dushyant Gautam has been made in-charge of Punjab, Chandigarh and Uttarakhand, and Dilip Sakia of Jharkhand and Arunachal Pradesh. Dushyant Gautam got additional responsibility of mahila morca.
The party has made Union Minister V Muralidharan in-charge of Andhra Pradesh along with Sunil Deodhar as co-incharge. Party national secretary Satya Kumar has been made in-charge of Andaman and Nicobar and national secretary Vinod Tawde in-charge of Haryana, it said.
November 14, 2020
