Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced its rejigged Parliamentary Board with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh and BJP president J P Nadda are among the eleven members. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan have been left out of BJP’s Parliamentary Board in a major organisational revamp as BJP President JP Nadda announced the members of the newly constituted Parliamentary Board on Wednesday.
- JP Nadda – President
- Narendra Modi
- Rajnath Singh
- Amit Shah
- B.S. Yedyurappa
- Sarbanand Sonowal
- K Lakshman
- Iqbal Singh Lalpura
- Sudha Yadav
- Satyanarayan Jatiya
- BL Santosh – Secretary
BJP also rejigged its Central Election Committee (CEC) and included former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, Union Minister Bhupender Yadav, Om Mathur and its women wing chief Vanathi Srinivasan. Former union minister Shahnawaz Hussain and Jual Oram have been dropped from the CEC.JP Nadda will head the CEC while BL Santosh will be the secretary and Vanathi Srinivas will be the ex-officio.
BJP dropped Nitin Gadkari and Shivraj Singh Chouhan from its parliamentary board and brought in six new faces including B S Yediyurappa and Iqbal Singh Lalpura. Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, K Laxman, Sudha Yadav and Satyanarayan Jatiya are the other new members of the BJP’s apex organisational body.
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