Varun,Smriti named BJP Secys; Raje is new Gen Secy

BJP president Nitin Gadkari named Varun Gandhi and Smriti Irani as new party secretaries.

Three months after he took over reigns of the party,BJP President Nitin Gadkari pn Tuesday brought in a mix of youth,experience and women in his team of office bearers inducting heavyweights like Vasundhara Raje and Ravishankar Prasad and hardliners like Varun Gandhi and Vinay Katiyar.

Gadkari,who was considered as an RSS choice when he replaced Rajnath Singh,has also given positions to some leaders said to be close to the sangh parivar founthead.

Among them are Bhagat Singh Koshiyari (Vice President),Murlidhar Rao (Secretary) and Tarun Vijay,who was Editor of RSS mouthpiece “Organiser”,as spokesperson.

Prominent Muslim face and three-time MP Shahnawaz Hussain,who was widely tipped to become a General Secretary,has been appointed as Spokesperson while Najma Heptullah has been retained as Vice President.

Raje,former Rajasthan Chief Minister who was unseated as Leader of the Opposition after the Lok Sabha debacle,and Prasad,now the Chief Spokesperson,have been new General Secretaries.

Gandhi,who landed himself in controversy for his hate speeches during the Lok Sabha elections,has now been inducted as one of the 15 Secretaries while Katiyar,a former

General Secretary,has become one of the 11 Vice Presidents.

L K Advani-loyalist Ananth Kumar,Vijay Goyal and Thavarchand Gehlot,have been retained as General Secretaries while former Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda,Dharmendra Pradhan,Narendrasingh Tomar and Jagat Prakash Nadda are the new General Secretaries.

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RSS points persons Ram Lal (General Secretary- Organisation),V Satish and Saudan Singh (Joint General Secretaries – Organisation) have been retained.

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