Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP national President J P Nadda, Union Home Ministers Amit Shah, and Defence Rajnath Singh are also part of the board.
The Bhartiya Janata Party, on Wednesday in a major reshuffle dropped Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shiv Singh Chouhan from its parliamentary board, the party’s highest decision-making body.
Former Karnataka CM B S Yediyurappa, Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal, former IPS officer Iqbal Singh Lalpura, former Lok Sabha MP Satyanarayan Jatiya, BJP National OBC Morcha president K Lakshman, and national secretary Sudha Yadav have been included in the party’s parliamentary board.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP national President J P Nadda, Union Home Ministers Amit Shah, and Defence Rajnath Singh are also part of the board.
The shuffle is an attempt by the BJP to make its parliamentary board more socially and regionally representative. Lalpura is the first Sikh to be included in the party’s parliamentary board as a person from a minority community, news agency PTI reported.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, BJP National General Secretary Bhupender Yadav, Om Mathur, and its women wing chief Vanathi Srinivasan have been made the members of party’s Central Election Committee (CEC). Former Union minister Shahnawaz Hussain and Jual Oran have been dropped from it. All the parliamentary board members are also part of the CEC.
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