After tasting victory in the recently concluded civic polls, BJP State chief Tirath Singh Rawat has finally allocated portfolios to party activists. In the fresh list of party activists that was issued on Monday after considering the advice and suggestions of veteran party leaders, the BJP has finally allocated portfolios to 27 party activists.
Apart from appointing heads of all six Morchas of the party, Rawat also appointed eight vice-presidents and four general secretaries.
Party sources revealed that Rawat has tried to balance the equation of Garhwal and Kumaon division of Uttarakhand while finalising the list. Intriguingly, the portfolio of the some party activists was increased whereas some activists faced the heat and important portfolios are assigned to activists.
Party sources said that the expansion of Rawat’s team was done keeping in mind the general elections, slated to take place in the next year. It is to be noted that the expansion of portfolio was done after tasting the comfortable victory in the civic polls in the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions of Uttarakhand.
The party has reasonably considered the advice of veteran party leaders while allotting portfolios to the party activists. While speaking to The Pioneer, Tirath Singh Rawat said that only those party activists were allotted portfolios who are having clean image and created awareness among the masses about the party’s ideology.
He said that allotment of work ahead of general elections would be done very judiciously in order to come back at Centre. Rawat claim that advice and sentiments of the every cell of the party was considered while allotting to portfolio to the party activists.
Rawat claimed that the party has given equal chance to women activists while allocating the portfolios to activists. As per the recently allocated portfolio, Dhan Singh Rawat, Kedar Joshi, Khajan Das, Madan Kaushik, Narayan Singh Rana, Col (Retd) CP Nautiyal, Kusum Kandpal and Anil Goyal were appointed State vice-presidents of the party whereas general secretary are Sanjay Kumar (Sangathan), Naresh Bansal, Gyan Singh Negi and Prakash Pant.
The eight secretaries (Mantri) of the party are Balwant Singh Bhauryal, Rajni Kukreti, Deepti Rawat, Shyam Veer Saini, Hemant Dwivedi, Neeru Devi, Kusum Gandhi and Swaraj Vidyan.
The responsibility of the treasurer is assigned to Ashish Gupta whereas Suresh Johsi, Prakash Suman Dhyani and Anil Balooni were appointed spokespersons. Party leader Umesh Agarwal was appointed as media in-charge and Suresh Tiwari and Abhimanyu Kumar were appointed as co-media in-charge of Garhwal and Kumaon divisions respectively.
Rawat has also gave its not to frame the disciplinary committee and Mohan lal Baunthiyal has been appointed as the chairman of the committee whereas Attar Singh Aswal, Krishan Chand Punetha and Devidutt Daani are the members and Dr Kalpana Saini is appointed as the secretary of the committee.
The former Chief Ministers Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Maj Gen (Retd) BC Khanduri and BS Koshyani along with the leader of Opposition in Vidhan Sabha Ajay Bhatt and former BJP State presidents Bacchi Singh Rawat, Bishan Singh Chufal, Puran Chand Sharma and Manoharkant Dhyani and Trivendra Singh Rawat, national secretary and Tehri MP Mala Rajyalakshmi Shah and former MP Balraj Passi including 19 members are permanent invitee members of the party.