BJP President Amit Shah on Tuesday restructured the party set-up and announced 18 departments. Some of them bearing fresh titles like ‘Political feedback and Response’, ‘Policy Research’, ‘Coordination of Trusts’ ‘Good governance, Central-state programme Coordination with StatesRs and ‘Media Relations’. He assigned key roles to Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, Kailash Vijayvargiya, Bhupendra Yadav and MJ Akbar.A large number of those, assigned new responsibilities of departments, have already been put in charge of various States, last week.According to sources, the party chief may also shortly announce constitution of some new party cells.
Shah has appointed party vice-president Sahasrabuddhe besides Sidharth Nath Singh, Mahesh Giri and Raj Shekhar for running the newly carved out department for RsGood Governance, Central and State Government programmes co-ordinationRsSahasrabuddhe has also been given the task of running the new department of RsPolicy ResearchRs along with the Director of Syama Prasad Mookerjee Foundation Anirban Ganguly and Vikshut.Party’s National Secretary Shrikant Sharma, also in-charge of Himachal Pradesh, will continue to hold charge of running the media cell. However, the party has set up a separate media relations department to improve its media outreach, which will be run by senior journalist and party MP MJ Akbar, Shrikant Sharma, Sidharth Nath Singh, Anil Baluni and Swadesh Verma. It is not clear how it will be different from the media cell which has, thus far been, taking care of media and its news-related concerns.
Party General Secretary Bhupendra Yadav, recently made in-charge of Bihar, will look after Election Management.Party general secretary Murlidhar Rao, already holding charge of Tamil Nadu, Karnatka and Yuva Morcha, has been asked to look after Training department as in-charge in which he will be assisted by Mahesh Sharma, Convenor, and Sunil Pande as Co-Convenor. Rao is already working on the training of party’s new members.Vijayvargiya, along with Akbar, will also take care of the new department of political feedback and response.