GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 10th September. The BJP announced a number of new appointments on Friday, including former Chief Ministers and Union Ministers — Vijay Rupani (Gujarat), Biplab Kumar Deb (Tripura), Prakash Javadekar and Mahesh Sharma (Union Ministers) — as party in-charge of various key states.
According to sources, these appointments have been made while taking into account different caste combinations and keeping people who have held positions of power in the past engaged with organizational tasks.
Election battles will take place throughout the year 2023, with states like Tripura, Meghalaya, and Nagaland holding elections in the first few months of the year. The Karnataka assembly elections will take place in mid-year.
This is also seen as a move to make room for senior party leaders inside the organization.
Several former chief ministers and union ministers have been included on the list that party president J.P. Nadda has approved.
Former Chief Ministers and ex-ministers who had been waiting for organizational tasks after leaving their previous high-level positions have been assigned responsibilities in various states.
Former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani will be in charge of Punjab and Chandigarh, former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb will be in charge of Haryana, and former Union Minister Prakash Javadekar will be in charge of Kerala. Similarly, Tripura has been given to former central minister Mahesh Sharma.
Former Union Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, on the other hand, were not included in the organizational restructuring.
The BJP also appointed former Bihar Minister Mangal Pandey as its new in-charge for Bihar (where it is no longer the ruling party), and general secretary Vinod Tawde (from Maharashtra) as its new in-charge for West Bengal. The BJP’s national spokesperson, Sambit Patra, has been named coordinator for northeastern states, with Rituraj Sinha, the party’s national secretary, serving as joint-coordinator, according to a statement.
Om Mathur, a senior party leader and member of its central election committee, will oversee the party’s operations in Chhattisgarh, while former Uttar Pradesh unit president Laxmikant Bajpai will oversee operations in Jharkhand.
Madhya Pradesh will be handled by P Murilidhar Rao, who will be assisted by Pankaja Munde, the late Gopinath Munde’s daughter. The key state will also hold elections next year.
Arun Singh, the BJP’s National General Secretary, will remain in charge of Rajasthan, with Vijaya Rahatkar serving as his deputy. Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh will hold elections before the end of the year. Other states, including Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tripura, Meghalaya, Telangana, Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, and Nagaland, will hold assembly elections next year.
The BJP has been holding regular meetings of party leaders to review poll preparations in these states and to examine feedback on potential candidates for the upcoming assembly elections.
JP Nadda, the president of the BJP, convened a meeting of party general secretaries last week to discuss the ground situation in five poll-bound states.
The party has changed the chief ministers of Gujarat, Karnataka, and Tripura to combat anti-incumbency, and there is speculation that Madhya Pradesh may come under closer scrutiny of the central leadership before the Assembly elections.
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