HYDERABAD: BJP president J P Nadda rejigged the list of the party’s central office-bearers on Saturday, bringing in a Pasmanda Muslim from Uttar Pradesh as one of its-vice presidents and accommodating its former Telangana unit chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar as a national general secretary.
BJP general secretary and MP Arun Singh issued the appointment orders to that effect on Saturday.
Sanjay will now be holding the post along with seven other party general secretaries including Tarun Chugh and Sunil Bansal, while BL Santhosh will continue to act as the party’s general secretary (organisation).
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has dropped C T Ravi, a leader from Karnataka, and Dilip Saikia, a Lok Sabha MP from Assam, as its general secretaries, with sources indicating that they may be contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) vice-chancellor Tariq Mansoor, now a BJP MLC in Uttar Pradesh, has been made a vice-president, a decision seen to be part of the party’s overtures to Pasmanda Muslims.
Most of the office-bearers have been retained as vice presidents, general secretaries and secretaries in the new list.
There are 13 vice presidents, nine general secretaries and 13 secretaries on the list.
Former Union minister Radha Mohan Singh, a Lok Sabha MP from Bihar, has been dropped as a party vice-president.
Anil Antony, son of veteran Congress leader A K Antony, has been brought in as a national secretary.
BJP vice-president DK Aruna has also been retained in her role, along with the party’s joint general secretary (organisation) Shiv Prakash. Satya Kumar from Andhra Pradesh has been appointed the party’s secretary.
