Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda on Thursday reconstituted the party’s national executive committee. From Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, Dr Manik Lal Saha, Pratima Bhoumik and Rebati Tripura were included in the committee in different capacities.
Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb is a permanent invitee (ex officio) with the Chief Ministers of Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh.
Besides, BJP Tripura Pradesh president Dr Manik Saha is also a permanent member.
Among the 80 NEC team, Pratima Bhoumik has been included while Rebati Tripura is a special invitee.
But Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma is not included.
Only two NE Deputy Chief Ministers Chowna Mein of Arunachal Pradesh and Y Patton Deputy Chief Minister of Nagaland have been included in the team.
According to the list issued by the BJP general secretary Arun Singh, 80 leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, veteran leaders L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, former national president Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, and Nitin Gadkari have been nominated in the new committee.
Besides these 80 leaders, 50 leaders have been included as special invitees and 179 leaders as permanent invitees (ex-officio) have been included in the party’s national working committee, including Chief Ministers from the BJP, Deputy Chief Minister, MLAs in various Legislative Assemblies and Legislative Councils.
B.L. Santosh has once again been given the responsibility of National General Secretary (Organisation). However, this time Nadda has named only one co-organisation General Secretary, Shivprakash, while V. Satish has been appointed the organiser.
The BJP president has also announced the name of 11 secretaries and 23 national spokespersons in his new team.
Along with this, the name of the presidents of various fronts of the party have also been announced, in which no change has been made.