PM Narendra Modi is BJP parliamentary party leader in House

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the new leader of the reconstituted BJP Parliamentary Party in both Houses of Parliament. Home minister Rajnath Singh will be the deputy leader of the party in the Lok Sabha and finance minister Arun Jaitley in the Rajya Sabha.

Updated on: Jul 13, 2014, 07:15:46 IST

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the new leader of the reconstituted BJP Parliamentary Party in both Houses of Parliament.

Home minister Rajnath Singh will be the deputy leader of the party in the Lok Sabha and finance minister Arun Jaitley in the Rajya Sabha.

According to the newly constituted BJP Parliamentary Party executive committee, the party has named parliamentary affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu as the government's chief whip in Parliament, besides the chief whips of the government and the party in both the Houses.

The party has also named 13 whips in Lok Sabha and three in Rajya Sabha.

Ministers of state for parliamentary affairs Santosh Gangwar and Prakash Javadekar will be the government's deputy chief whips in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, respectively.

Lok Sabha member from Rajasthan Arjun Ram Meghwal will be the party's chief whip in the Lok Sabha while Rajya Sabha member from Punjab Avinash Rai Khanna will be the new party chief whip in the Upper House.

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