Continuing with its tirade to win the support of dalits the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president laxmikant Bajpai revamped his team on Wednesday with a focus on dalits and Most Backward Castes.
He declared his team that includes five vice-presidents, three state general secretaries, four secretaries and three spokesmen. Besides, the committee also includes 84 state working committee members and 22 special invitees.
The high point of his new team was inclusion of former health minister ramapati shastri as state general secretary. The dalit leader was cabinet rank minister in the Klayan Singh Government and after he lost elections from Gonda he fell from favour.
All the prominent names are missing from the list which includes three women – Anupama Jaiswal as general secretary and Gita Shakya and Asha Kabir as secretary,. Among 84 state working committee members just nine are women.
Bajpai has appointed Syam Bihari lal, Harish Srivastava and I.P. Singh as spokesmen of the party. In the new team Anand Ratna Maurya, Satyapal Singh and Prakash Sharma are vice-presidents, Ramapati Shastri, Dharampal Singh, and Anupama Jaiswal (State general secretaries), Jaswant saini, Jaiparakah Nishad, Gita Shakya and Asha Kabir (Secretaries).
State working committee members include Satish Gautam, Rajesh Chaudhry, Dr Dharmendra Jatav, S.M. Yadav, Harnath Singh Yadav, Ramsakhi Kotharia, Maya Chaudhry, Babita Singh, Vipin Verma, J.P.S. Rathore, Ravindra rathore, Gulshan Anand, Farida Sultan, Vijay laxmi Sahu, Bagwan Kori, Subrat Pathak, Pushpendra Chandel, Paragi lal Ahirwar, Ram Dayal Tripathi, Vandana Pathak, Manoj Gupta, Sadhna Singh, Rekha Jaiswal, Ram lakhan Passi, Anurag Singh, Vibhuti Rai, Babu Ram Dwivedi, Rajendra Prasad Pandey, Shiv Prakash Mishra, Alka Rai, Deepchandra Ram, Bhawna Singh, Brijesh Saurabh, lal Chandra Kushwaha, Sardar SP Bagga, Shailendra Singh, Ram Rati Bind, Budha lal Vishwakarama, Kamla Singh, Bhola Singh, Gulfan Singh, Ramendra Singh, Sunil Sharma, Vikram, Suresh, Ravindra Rajoda, Vireshwar Tyagi, SC Sharma, PC Chachar, Dr Mukesh Parmar, Atul Singh, Sardaman Tyagi, Vijay Kashyap, Dr DV Yadav, Arvind Bharati, Mahesh Gupta, Sunita Dayal, and Vimla Botham.