JP Nadda, president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, made a few internal changes to the party by reassigning the roles of some of the officials borrowed from its intellectual father, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Sangh, to the party (RSS).
Further inductions to the national team, including from the RSS, are also planned in the coming weeks, according to individuals aware of the data.
The party declared on Thursday that Saudan Singh, joint general secretary (organization), has been made vice president of the national team and will oversee the work of the party in Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh. At a time when the continued unrest of farmers is at its height in Punjab and Haryana, Singh will take over the work of the party. A section of farmers in these states demand that the newly enacted farm laws be repealed, arguing that they do not protect the rights of the farmers..
A new title has been granted to V Satish, now the Joint Secretary-General (Organization), who will now be Sangathak. Satish, who had previously been in charge of states such as Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat, was given responsibility for organizing the parliamentary office, coordinating the SC/ST morcha and Vishesh Sampark, or special outreach.
The responsibility for Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana has been granted to Shiv Prakash, the third Joint Secretary General (organisation). He continues to hold the task to look after West Bengal, where the party is planning for a difficult competition against the ruling government of Mamata Banerjee.
These improvements are in line with the process of creating a new team and strengthening the influence of the party across states, according to a party official.
More names will be added to the national team as there are vacancies in many states that go to polls in 2022, including Uttar Pradesh; in Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand,” a functionary aware of the details said.”
In September, Nadda named a new national team composed of 12 vice-presidents, 8 general secretaries, 3 national joint secretaries, and 13 secretaries, with the exception of 23 spokespersons.