Narendra Modi inducted to Central Parliamentary Board of BJP, Amit Shah General Secretary

By our correspondent, New Delhi, 31 March 2013

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been inducted to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s most powerful decision body Parliamentary Board. Shri Modi has also been placed in the Central Election Committee of party.

Shri Modi was Parliamentary Board member few years back. He and Shri Arun Jaitley were dropped from this body after Rajnath Singh became party’s national president for the first time. Now Rajnath Singh has become party preisdent again, and he has re-inducted Modi to party’s most powerful decision body.

Gujarat MLA Amit Shah has been inducted to the team as General Secretary. Shah is elected from Amdavad’s Naranpura assembly seat. He is former Minister of state for Home, Gujarat.

Earlier, Gujarat was represented in national body of BJP by Rajya Sabha MP and Modi loyalist Parshottam Rupala, who was made Vice President as per Modi’s wish. Now as per Modi’s wish only, Gujarat is represented in national body of BJP by Amit Shah, who has been made General Secretary. Rupala’s Rajya Sabha term is ending next year. He could be made Gujarat BJP’s president again, as he is Modi loyalist, Patidar by caste, he hails from Saurashtra, he is one of the most powerful orators in Gujarat and his organizational skills are well admired. But then there’s a point. State party Presidents automatically becomes part of the national executive. So why then Rupala is included in the national executive if he has to be made state party president soon? This signifies that RC Faldu may get another term as party president. Or anyone else? The answer will arrive soon.

Rajya Sabha MP elected from Gujarat, Smriti Irani has been made Vice President of the party.

President Shri Rajnath Singh, MP

Vice President
1 Shri Sadananda Gauda
2 Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
3 Shri Dr C. P. Thakur
4 Shri Jual Urao
5 Shri S. S. Ahluwalia
6 Shri Balbir Punj
7 Shri Satpal Malik
8 Shri Prabhat Jha
9 Sushri Uma Bharti
10 Smt. Bijyo Chakravarti
11 Smt. Lakxmikanta Chawla
12 Smt. Kiran Maheshwari
13 Smt. Smriti Irani

General Secretaries
1 Shri Ananth Kumar
2 Shri Thawarchand Gehlot
3 Shri J. P. Naddha
4 Shri Dharmendra Pradhan
5 Shri Tapir Gaon
6 Shri Amit Shah
7 Shri Varun Gandhi
8 Shri Rajeev Pratap Rudy
9 Shri Murlidhar Rao
10 Shri Ramlal (GS Org.)
Joint General Secretaries (Org.)
1 Shri V. Satish
2 Shri Soudan Singh
Secretaries
1 Shri Shyam Jaju
2 Shri Bhupendra Yadav
3 Shri Krishna Das
4 Dr. Anil Jain
5 Shri Vinod Pandey
6 Shri Trivendra Rawat
7 Shri Rameshwar Chaurasiya
8 Smt. Aarti Mehra
9 Smt. Renu Kushwaha
10 Smt. Sudha Yadav
11 Smt. Sudha Malaiya
12 Smt. Poonam Mahajan
13 Smt. Luies Marandi
14 Smt. Dr. Tamil Isai
15 Sushree Vani Tripathi

Treasurer Shri Piyush Goyel

Headquarter Incharge Shri O. P. Kohli
Office Sec. Parliamentary Party Dr. Ramkripal Sinha, Ex-MP
Parliamentary Party Jt. Office Secretary Shri Shanmuknathan

Spokesperson
1 Shri Prakash Jawdekar
2 Shri Shaha Nawaj Hussain
3 Smt. Nirmla Sitaraman
4 Shri Vijay Sonkar Shashtri
5 Dr. Sudhanshu Trivedi
6 Smt. Meenakshi Lekhi
7 Capt. Abhimanyu

President of Morchas

1 Mahila Morcha Sushri Saroj Pandey
2 Yuva Morcha Shri Anurag Thakur
3 SC Morcha Shri Dr. Sanjay Paswan
4 ST Morcha Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste
5 Minority Morcha Shri Abdul rashid
6 Kisan Morcha Shri Om Prakash Dhankar

Sl. No. Central Parliamentary Board
1 Shri Rajnath Singh (President)
2 Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
3 Shri Lal Krishna Advani
4 Shri Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi
5 Shri M. Venkeya Naidu
6 Shri Nitin Gadkari
7 Smt. Sushma Swaraj
8 Shri Arun Jaitely
9 Shri Narendra Modi
10 Shri Anant Kumar
11 Shri Thawar Chand Gehlot
12 Shri Ram Lal (G.S. Org.)

Sl. No. Central Election Committee
1 Shri Rajnath Singh (President)
2 Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
3 Shri Lal Krishna Advani
4 Shri Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi
5 Shri M. Venkeya Naidu
6 Shri Nitin Gadkari
7 Smt. Sushma Swaraj
8 Shri Arun Jaitely
9 Shri Narendra Modi
10 Shri Anant Kumar
11 Shri Thawar Chand Gehlot
12 Shri Ram Lal (G.S. Org.)
13 Shri Gopinath Mundey
14 Shri Jual Oran
15 Shri Sayyeb Shahnawaj Hussain
16 Shri Vinay Katiyar
17 Shri J.P. Nadda
18 Dr. Harshwardhan
19 Sushree Saroj Pandey (Ex-Officio)

Sl.No. Central Disciplinary Committee
1 Shri Radha Mohan Singh (President)
2 Shri jagdeesh Mukhi (Secretary)
3 Shri L.Ganeshan (Member)
4 Shri Hari Babu (Member)
5 Shri Shyam Nandan Singh (Member)

Changes that took place

-Vice Presidents:

Shanta Kumar, Kalraj Mishra, Vinay Katiyar, Bhagat Singh Koshiyari, Karuna Shukla, Najma Heptulla, Hema Malini, Parshottam Rupala, Dr. Ramesh Pokhariyal, Smt Kiran Ghai dropped from the list of Vice Presidents.

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Smt Bijoya Chakravarty continue as Vice Presidents.

Sadanand Gauda, CP Thakur, Jual Urao, SS Ahluwalia, Balbir Punj, Satpal Malik, Prabhat Jha, Uma Bharti, Smt Lakxmikanta, Smrti Irani, Kiran Maheshwari inducted as new Vice Presidents.

-General Secretaries:

Ananth Kumar, Thawarchand Gehlot, Dharmendra Pradhan, JP Nadda, Tapir Gao, Shri Ram Lal continue as General Secretaries.

Amit Shah, Varun Gandhi, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Murlidhar Rao are new inductions.

Vijay Goel, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Narendra Singh Tomar dropped. Kiran Maheshwari promoted as Vice President.

-Joint General Secretaries (Org)

V.Satish and Saudan Singh continue.

-Secretaries:

Santosh Gangwar, Saroj Pandey(shifted as party’s Women’s cell president replacing Smriti Irani who is promoted as Vice President), Navjot Singh Sidhu, Ashok Pradhan, Varun Gandhi(promoted as party’s General Secretary), Kirit Somaiya, Surma Padhy, P.Murlidhar Rao(promoted as General Secretary), Dr. K.Laxman, Captain Abhimanyu(shifted as Spokesperson) dropped.

Shyam Jaju, Smt. Aarti Mehra, Bhupendra Yadav, Vani Tripathi continued.

Krishna Das, Dr. Anil Jan, Vinod Pandey, Trevendra Rawat, Rameshwar Chaurasiya, Renu Kushwaha, Sudha Yadav, Sudha Malaiya, Poonam Mahajan, Luies Marandi, Dr. Tamil Isai fresh inducted.

-Treasurer: Piyush Goel continued.

-Central Parliamentary Board:

The only change here is that Shri Narendra Modi has replaced late Shri Bal Apte.