BJP National Team Revamp: Who Replaces Whom in Big Shake‑Up

The BJP, on Monday, announced its new national team under party president Nitin Nabin, appointing 13 vice presidents, including Ram Madhav, Lok Sabha MP D Purandeshwari and former Uttarakhand chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat. Union Minister Piyush Goyal has been made national treasurer.

The party has retained BL Santhosh as National General Secretary (Organisation) and brought in former Union minister Smriti Irani and ex-Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb in its team of eight national general secretaries, according to the list released by the party.

Vinod Tawde and Sunil Bansal are the only two national general secretaries that the BJP has retained in its new team.

The BJP has brought in many new faces, including Kavita Patidar, K Surendran, Sandeep Pathak and Manoj Tigga, in its team of 16 national secretaries from different states.

Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Baijayant Jay Panda and Rekha Verma have been retained as vice presidents.

The party has constituted a new team of national office bearers under President Nitin Nabin ahead of the crucial assembly elections next including in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. While the BJP has included many new faces, let's take a look at who all have been replaced.

Who All Have Been Replaced

General Secretaries

• Smriti Irani replaces Radha Mohan Das Agrawal
• Harish Dwevidi replaces Arun Singh
• Biplab Deb and Sanjay Bhatia appointed as General Secretaries
• Satish Poonia replaces Tarun Chug
• Gajendra Patel replaces Dushyant Gautam

Social Media Convener

Youth Morcha

Hemang Joshi replaces Tejasvi Surya

Mahila Morcha Chief

Roop Kumari replaces Vanathi Srinivasan

OBC Chief

Amarpal Maurya replaces K Laxman

Kisan Morcha

Bansilal Gurjar replaces Rajkumar Chahar

SC Morcha

Shivesh Kumar Ram replaces Lal Singh Arya

ST Morcha

Mangalam Rawat replaces Sameer Oraon

Minority morcha

Kunwar Basit Ali replaces Jamal Siddiqui

Treasurer

Piyush Goyal replaces Rajesh Agrawal

Out of the total 65 names of office bearers announced by the BJP under party president Nitin Nabin, 51 are new. Six are below 40 years, 15 are in the 40-49 years age group, and 21 are in the 50-59 years age group. The new office bearers also include 12 women and six leaders from minority communities.

Party sources said that the revamp was done keeping in mind the BJP's preparations for the assembly polls up to 2029 and the next general elections.

With inputs from PTI