After the Delhi elections and the government formation in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP president Amit Shah is now turning his attention to organisational matters. The party may get some new faces with Shah likely to fill vacancies in his team this month.
After the Delhi elections and the government formation in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP president Amit Shah is now turning his attention to organisational matters. The party may get some new faces with Shah likely to fill vacancies in his team this month.
The matter may have come up at the marathon meeting Shah had with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and general secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi at the Sangh headquarters in Nagpur on Holi, according to sources.
With the party faced with the challenge of elections in Bihar later this year, Shah could bring in a party leader from the state as general secretary. Among the names doing the rounds is that of Nand Kishore Yadav, the leader of Opposition in the assembly. According to sources, the BJP was trying to woo the Yadavs, who forms 14 per cent of the vote bank in the state and showed signs of shedding their hostility in the Lok Sabha elections. Ram Kripal Yadav, who was once close to RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, is now a minister in the Modi government. Bhupendra Yadav, the Rajya Sabha MP from Rajasthan and a party general secretary, is in-charge of Bihar.
There are three vacancies in the list of general secretaries after JP Nadda, Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Ram Shankar Katheriya were inducted into the Council of Ministers. Among the names that are being considered are also names of Madhya Pradesh MP Kailash Vijayvargiya and former Jharkhand chief minister Arjun Munda. The party has to also bring in three new Vice Presidents. Sources said the that keeping in mind caste and regional aspects while finalising its list of office bearers, the party will consider giving representation to dalits and scheduled tribes.
The BJP is likely to draw from states like Uttar Pradesh, of which Shah was in-charge in the run up to the Lok Sabha elections. The BJP had won 72 of the 80 seats in the state.
Besides filling vacancies in its team of office bearers, Shah could also revamp the party cells, which could be pruned from 42, covering various sectors, to around 15, sources said. The cells had been dissolved last year as the party planned to cut down their numbers.
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