New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Jagat Prakash Nadda on Saturday announced names of party’s central office bearers ahead of the elections. Odisha’s Baijayant Panda has been re-appointed as the National Vice President of the party for the third time in a row.
It may be noted here that Panda was appointed the National Vice President for the first time when Amit Shah was the party president. Subsequently, Panda was reappointed by J P Nadda. This is the third time he has been appointed to the senior position of the party ahead of the general elections due next year.
Apart from Panda, 12 othe
r leaders have also been appointed as National Vice-Presidents of the saffron party in the overhaul.
Nadda rejigged the list of the party’s central office-bearers, 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.
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, including B L Santhosh as the in-charge of organisation, and 13 secretaries in the list.
Anil Antony, son of veteran Congress leader A K Antony, has been brought in as a national secretary.
Here is the complete list:
