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Yeddyurappa in, Varun out in BJP new team by Amit Shah

| | Aug 16, 2014, at 09:24 pm
New Delhi, Aug 16 (IBNS): Dropping Varun Gandhi as a general secretary and bringing in former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa as one of the vice-presidents, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah on Saturday announced his new team of the party functionaries.

Shah announced the names of Bandaru Dattatrey and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi as two other vice-presidents of the BJP.

The newly-appointed BJP president’s team comprised eight general secretaries including party’s in-charge for Bihar Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) spokesperson Ram Madhav.

Surprisingly, BJP MP from Sultanpur Varun Gandhi’s name was dropped as a general secretary by the party.


Shah also appointed 10 new party spokespersons.

Here is the complete list:

Vice President

Bandaru Dattatrey (Telangana)

BS Yedurappa (Karnataka)

SatyaPal Malik (Uttar Pradesh)

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (Uttar Pradesh)

Purusottam Rupala (Gujarat)

Prabhat Jha (Madhya Pradesh)

Raghuwar Das (Jharkhand)

Kiran Maheswari (Rajstahan)

Vinay Sahasrbuddhe (Maharastra)

Renu Devi (Bihar)

Dinesh Sharma (Uttar Pradesh)

General Secretary

Jagat Prakash Nadda (Himachal Pradesh)

Rajiv Pratap Ruddy (Bihar)

Murlidhar Rao (Telagana)

Rammadhav (Andhra Pradesh)

Saroj Pandey (Chhatisgarh)

Bhupendra Yadev (Rajsthan)

Ram shanakar Katheriya (Uttar Pradesh)

Ramlal (Genral Secretary Organistaion) (Delhi)

Joint General Secretary Organisation

V Shatish (Karnataka)

Shaudan Singh (Chattishgarh)

Shiv Prakash (Uttar Pradesh)

BL Santosh (Karnataka)

Secretary

Shyam Jaju (Maharashtra)

Anil Jain (Delhi)

H Raja (Tamil Nadu)

Romen Deka (Assam)

Sudha Yadav (Haryana)

Poonam Mahajan (Maharashtra)

Ramvichar Netam (Chattishgarh)

Arun Singh (Uttar Pradesh)

Sidharth Nath Singh (Uttar Pradesh)

Sardar RP Singh (Delhi)

Shrikant Sharma (Uttar Pradesh)

Jyoti Dhruve (Madhya Pradesh)

Tarun Chugh (Punjab)

Rajnish Kumar (Bihar)

Spokesperson

Shahnawaj Husain (Bihar)

Dr Sudhanshu Trivedi (Uttar Pradesh)

Meenakshi Lekhi (Delhi)

MJ Aakbar (Delhi)

Vijay Sonkar Shashtri (Uttar Pradesh)

Lalita Kumar Manglam (Tamil Nadu)

Nalin Kohli (Delhi)

Sambit Patra (Odisha)

Anil Baluni (Uttarakhand)

GVL Narsimha Rao (Andhra Pradesh)

Morcha President

Mahila Morcha

Vijya Rahtar (Maharashtra)

Yuva Morcha

Anurag Thakur (Himachal Pradesh)

Scheduled Caste Morcha

Shri Dushyant Kr Gautam (Delhi)

Scheduled Tribe Morcha

Faggan Singh Kulaste (Madhya Pradesh)

Minority Morcha

Abdul Rashid Ansari

Office Secretary

Arun Kumar Jain (Delhi)

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