BJP President J P Nadda rejigged the list of the party’s central office-bearers on Saturday, 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.
Bandi Sanjay, who was the state BJP president for over three years, was recently replaced in that position by Union Minister G Kishan Redddy, and the party’s national leadership had indicated that Sanjay’s hard work in making BJP a force to reckon with in Telangana, would be recognized.
The saffron party also announced that senior leader DK Aruna, will continue in her position as the party’s national vice-president.
The BJP has dropped C T Ravi, a leader from Karnataka, and Dilip Saikia, a Lok Sabha MP from Assam, as its general secretaries, with sources indicating that they may be contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
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.
