Former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani and ex-Tripura CM Biplab Kumar Deb along with former Union ministers Prakash Javadekar and Mahesh Sharma have been appointed as in-charges of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) affairs in different states, the party said in a statement.
While Rupani will be in-charge of Punjab and Chandigarh, Deb for Haryana and Javadekar will look after party work in Kerala.
The party also named its general secretary Vinod Tawde as its new in-charge for Bihar and former Bihar minister Mangal Pandey for West Bengal.
Besides, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra has been appointed as a coordinator for northeastern states and the party's national secretary Rituraj Sinha will be a joint coordinator.
This is seen as a significant development for the party as several senior leaders, who had no organisational post currently, have now been given new responsibilities.
{{/usCountry}}This is seen as a significant development for the party as several senior leaders, who had no organisational post currently, have now been given new responsibilities.
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Senior party leader and member of its central election committee Om Mathur will be in-charge of the party's affairs in Chhattisgarh and its former Uttar Pradesh unit president Laxmikant Bajpai will look after the work in Jharkhand.
Taking to Twitter, Deb said, “Under the guidance of Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi ji and under the chairmanship of national president Shri @JPNadda ji, we will work unitedly to further strengthen the party in Haryana as team BJP.”
Mahesh Sharma said, “I express my gratitude to Hon'ble PM Shri @narendramodi ji, home minister Shri @AmitShah ji and national president Shri @JPNadda ji for being appointed in charge of Tripura state. I will try my best to live up to the aspirations of the party's top leadership and workers.”
National general secretary Dilip Saikia has been replaced by Laxmi Kant Bajpai in Jharkhand. Recently, Bajpai was brought to the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh and has also been made the chief whip of the party in the Rajya Sabha
Sources told news agency ANI that these appointments have been made keeping in mind various combinations of caste and keeping people who have previously held positions of power engaged in organisational work.
The year 2023 will be full of electoral battles in which states like Tripura, Meghalaya, and Nagaland are going to the polls in the first part of the year. The mid-year will be the Karnataka assembly elections.
(With inputs from PTI, ANI)