Shah revamps BJP's list of State heads

Revamping the party’s list of State in-charge, co-in-charge and Morcha in-charge, BJP president Amit Shah on Friday appointed Madhya Pradesh Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya as ‘Prabhari’ of West Bengal, party general secretary Saroj Pandey  incharge of Maharashtra and put another party general secretary Muralidhar in-charge of BJP’s youth wing. 

The poll-bound Bihar has been placed under the charge of Rajya Sabha MP Bhupendra Yadav with two other co-in-charges, including CR Patil, MP from Navsari (Gujarat), known to be close to the Prime Minister, and Pawan Sharma.Shah has sought to strengthen party’s team in Uttar Pradesh by giving State-in-charge OP Mathur five other co-in-charges, including Delhi MP Ramesh Biduri, Virender Khateek (MP), Rameshwar Chaurasiya, Satyendra Kushwaha and Sunil Ojha.

‘Yuva Morcha’ has been placed under BJP general secretary Muralidhar Rao who is also in-charge of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Anurag Thakur was until now the chief of ‘Yuva Morcha’. Purandeshwari Devi, former Union Minister (under the UPA Government) and daughter of famous actor and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister NT Rama Rao, has been appointed chief of BJP’s women wing. She has also been made co- in-charge of Karnataka.

Former IPS officer Farooq Khan, recently inducted as national secretary, has been given in-charge of Nagaland.

Former Mayor of lucknow Dinesh Sharma has been inducted as in-charge of Gujarat while national secretary Sidharth Nath Singh has been put in-charge of Andhra Pradesh.BJP spokesperson Nalin Kohli has been inducted as in-charge of Meghalaya and BJP MP Poonam Mahajan been put in charge of Dadra & Nagar Haveli. Former BJP Gujarat president has been put in charge of Goa and Haryana been given to Dr Anil Jain.

National secretary Srikant Sahama has been retained as in-charge of  Himachal Pradesh, Odisha in-charge Arun Singh has been given charge of BJP headquarters and party vice-president Shyam Jaju appointed in-charge of Delhi in addition to Uttarakhand. Former in-charge of Delhi Prabhat Jha has been shifted to Chandigarh as party’s party in-charge. Sidharth Nath Singh and Suresh Pujari are co-in-charge of West Bengal.