BJP releases new list of National Office Bearers ahead of MP Rajasthan polls

BJP releases new list of National Office Bearers
ahead of MP Rajasthan polls

After months of deliberations and in time for some crucial elections in states like Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh changes have been made.
Prominent names like C T Ravi, Dilip Ghosh, Dilip Saikia and Sunil Deodhar have been replaced with new faces such as Bandi Sanjay, Anil Antony and Kamakhya P Tasa.

Bandi Sanjay, who recently ceased to be the state president in Telangana, has been brought in as a general secretary, along with Rammohan Agrawal.

These changes have come after months of deliberations and in time for some crucial elections; Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizoram are the states that are headed to the polls later this year. None of these changes have been notified as of now in the Parliament Board and Central Election Committee.

Dilip Ghosh and Bhartiben Syal are now no longer vice-presidents. Instead, new faces include Laxmikant Vajpayee, Lata Usendi and Tareek Mansoor.

Kamakhya P Tasa, Surendra Singh Nagar, and Anil Antony are the party’s new Secretaries. Among the list of the party’s Secretaries, those that were dropped include Vinay Sonkar, Sunil Deodhar, Harish Dwivedi. Antony, whose father AK Antony was a close aide of Sonia Gandhi, had joined the BJP earlier this year. Tasa is a leader from the tea gardens of Upper Assam.

In addition to that, Naresh Bansal replaces Sudhir Gupta as Joint Treasurer of the party.

Radhamohan Agrawal, a close aide of UP CM Yogi Adityanath, vacated the Gorakhpur assembly seat for the former MP. As a reward, he was given a Rajya Sabha ticket last year in May. With his appointment, UP will have two general secretaries.

Another worthy addition is Tareek Mansoor, former VC of Aligarh Muslim University, who played a key role for the party amid the anti-CAA protests.
He was also responsible for the Dara Shikoh library, a project considered crucial for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and now working on the party’s efforts to woo Pasmanda Muslims.

The BJP has also sought to bring in more young as well as minority faces into the fold, with the appointments of Mansoor and Antony.

News Edit K.V.Raman