New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) rejigged its central crew Saturday by appointing 9 common secretaries and 13 vice-presidents. The celebration’s central crew of office-bearers additionally has president J.P. Nadda, B.L. Santhosh as common secretary (organisation) and 13 secretaries.
The organisational overhaul comes forward of meeting elections in states akin to Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh. Lots of the appointments are being seen as an try and strike a caste stability, Different Backward Class (OBC) outreach or higher illustration of essential states akin to Telangana and Chhattisgarh.
The celebration additionally appointed two common secretaries (organisation) to completely different states — swapping Phanindra Nath and G.R. Raju who held Assam & Tripura and Haryana earlier — whereas a 3rd, Vivek Dadhakar, has been given the submit in Andaman & Nicobar.
Notable among the many new common secretaries are Telangana unit former president Bandi Sanjay and Radha Mohan Agrawal from Uttar Pradesh, whereas C.T. Ravi from Karnataka and Assam MP Dilip Saikia have been dropped.
A senior celebration chief mentioned to ThePrint Saturday, “Since C.T. Ravi misplaced the current meeting election in his state, he’s eager to combat the subsequent yr’s Lok Sabha elections. He’s additionally one of many candidates for celebration presidentship within the state. Likewise, Saikia was relieved of his responsibility as a result of he’s an MP and desires to organize for the approaching Lok Sabha elections.”
These faraway from their vice-president’s submit are Lok Sabha MPs Dilip Ghosh from West Bengal, Bharti Shiyal from Gujarat, and Radha Mohan Singh from Bihar. There’s hypothesis that they’ve been dropped to allow them to put together for the approaching Lok Sabha elections.
In the meantime, from Chhattisgarh, Rajya Sabha MP Saroj Pandey and former state minister Lata Usendi have been appointed vice-presidents, whereas former chief minister Raman Singh is already a celebration vice-president.
Equally, the inclusion of former Aligarh Muslim College (AMU) vice-chancellor and a member of the legislative council (MLC) in Uttar Pradesh, Tariq Mansoor, as vice-president appears to be one other overture of the BJP in the direction of Pasmanda Muslims.
One other celebration chief mentioned that being an academician, “Mansoor has a community of mental Muslims whilst he hails from among the many lowest strata of the group. So he suits the invoice when the BJP is on the lookout for assist for the Uniform Civil Code and likewise to offset Muslim polarisation…inside months of being nominated an MLC, he was elevated to the nationwide crew as part of that technique.”
On the checklist of celebration secretaries are Kamakhya Prasad Tasa from Assam, Congress chief A.Okay. Antony’s son Anil Antony from Kerala and Surendra Nagar from UP.
A 3rd chief advised ThePrint, “The celebration has given higher illustration to states which can be somewhat more difficult, akin to Telangana and Chhattisgarh. There are three vice-presidents from Chhattisgarh whereas Bandi from Telangana, who was not too long ago changed by Union minister G. Kishan Reddy as state unit chief, has been accommodated as the one common secretary from a southern state.
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OBC outreach in Telangana
In Telangana, the OBC vote favoured the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (now the Bharat Rashtra Samithi) within the 2018 meeting elections, election knowledge confirmed. As Bandi Sanjay belongs to the OBC Munnuru Kapu caste, his induction into the central workplace is probably going an try at OBC outreach as additionally an acknowledgement of his contribution in the direction of constructing the celebration within the state. Extra so, as a result of one other outstanding state chief, Eatala Rajender, was made the celebration’s marketing campaign committee chairman earlier this month.
Talking of G. Kishan Reddy, the second celebration chief quoted above mentioned, “The dominant Reddy group is barely 5 p.c in state, whereas Bandi’s OBC group is greater than 57 p.c. Eatala additionally belongs to the backward group. So the celebration is appeasing all – with Reddy as state chief and Bandi part of the central workplace.”
(Edited by Smriti Sinha)
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