Sharp-witted BJP leader and lok Sabha member from Chhattisgarh’s Durg seat, Saroj Pandey, said on Sunday that she would strive to do the best for the party as new head of the national women’s cell (Mahila Morcha).
“It’s a challenging assignment, will surely do the best to deliver for the party and will raise women’s issues more strongly and vigorously,’’ Pandey told The Pioneer, soon after she was appointed as new president of the BJP Mahila Morcha.
The 45-year-old Pandey who is known as a seasoned woman politician in Chhattisgarh, added: “Surely, I will try to live up to expectations of the party president and each and every cadre of the party’’.
Pandey, who holds MSc degree in Child Development, has seen considerable rise in politics since 2008 when she was first elected to the Chhattisgarh State Assembly from Vaishali Nagar seat from her home district- Durg.
BJP president Rajnath Singh on Sunday announced his much-awaited team to steer the party into the next general elections scheduled to be held next year. Singh’s 76-member new team has 12 vice-presidents, 10 general secretaries, 15 secretaries and seven spokespersons, besides a 12-member Central Parliamentary Board, a 19-member Central Election Committee and a five-member Central Disciplinary Committee.