Delhi, 14th November: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has appointed Kailash Vijayvargiya as in-charge of West Bengal. Arvind Menon and Amit Malviya have been appointed as sah-prabharis of West Bengal. The appointments were made by BJP chief JP Nadda.
Some of the other key appointments:
- Dr Sukanta Majumdar, MP, Balurghat as in-charge, of Sikkim.
- Senior spokespersons Nalin Kohli and Sambit Patra have been made in-charge of Nagaland and Manipur
- Dr Anupam Hazra, National Secretary has been appointed co-in-charge of Bihar.
- Subhas Sarkar, MP, Bankura has been appointed as co-in-charge of Jharkhand.
- Radha Mohan Singh has been appointed in-charge of Uttar Pradesh.
- BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh has been appointed in-charge of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh.
- Bhupender Yadav has been appointed Gujarat in-charge.
- NTR’s daughter- D Purandareswari, who has been made in-charge of Chhatisgarh and Odisha
- Rajya Sabha MP Dushyant Kumar Gautam has been made in-charge of Uttarakhand, Punjab, and Chandigarh
- BJP I-T cell chief Amit Malviya has been made the co-in charge of West Bengal
- National secretary Vinod Tawde has been named in-charge of Haryana
Earlier in September, JP Nadda released the list of new National office bearers of the party. While most senior leaders and ex-CMs like – Raman Singh, Vasundhara Raje, Raghubar Das were retained as state Vice-presidents, several younger leaders were elevated.
Lok Sabha MP Tejasvi Surya has replaced Poonam Mahajan as the new BJP Yuva Morcha chief while late Deputy CM Gopinath Munde’s daughter Pankaja Munde has been made national secretary. The BJP has also reshuffled its national spokespersons – dropping leaders G V.L Narasimha Rao and Meenakshi Lekhi.
One of the biggest changes is that Ram Madhav has been replaced with Punjab’s Tarun Chugh as General Secretary. This is the first time Nadda has rejigged the team, since taking over as party president from Amit Shah in January.
