BJP State president and newly elected Rajya Sabha MP Deepak Prakash on Friday announced his new team by making several changes in the organization. BJP sources said that several of the office bearers in the former organisational structure have been replaced.
BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Samir Oroan, who was holding the post of State vice president, has been made as State general secretary.
The other State general secretaries are Aditya Sahu and Pradeep Verma. A senior BJP leader requesting anonymity said, “The posts of state general secretary is important and vital posts as general secretary after the president remains active in day to day affairs.” The leader added, “Caste configuration and regional balance has been maintained in forming new organisations. There are members from ST, SC, OBC and upper caste among others.”
For Vice President’s posts, the party has given the jobs to seven leaders, some ministers in Raghubar Das Cabinet and MPs, MLAs. The seven vice presidents are Neelkanth Singh Munda, Raj Paliwar, MPs Sunil Singh, Annapurna Devi, former MLAs Gangotri Kujur, MLA Aparna Sen Gupta and senior leaders, including Pranav Verma and Vinod Sharma.
The party has made eight State secretaries retaining Subodh Singh Guddu, Hatia MLA Naveen Jaiswal, Mandu MLA Jai Prakash Bhai Patel and others. Deepak Banka has been made party treasurer. Hemant Das, who was holding the post of office secretary, has been retained.
The post of State general secretary (organisation) has been given to Dhrampal Singh. Sources said that in BJP organisation the post of general secretary (organization) is given to a man from RSS background and in Jharkhand too Dhrampal Singh comes from RSS background. Pradeep Sinha has been made as party Spokesperson while the other names figuring in state spokespersons are Pratul Shahdeo, Saroj Singh, Avinesh Kumar. Misfiqa Hassan is the lone minority and women face in BJP spokesperson list. Former MLA Kunal Sarangi has been made as another state spokesperson.
Shivpujan Pathak the state media in-charge has been retained while co-media incharges are Prem Mittal, Yogendra Pratap Singh, Ramesh Pushkar, Rajiv Tiwari and Ashok Bariak.