Bharatiya Janata Party national president JP Nadda on Saturday appointed Phanindranath Sharma as organisation general secretary for Haryana. He also appointed Ravindra Raju for Assam and Tripura and Vivek Dadhakar for Andaman and Nicobar, as reported by the news agency ANI.
Earlier in the day, former Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay and Rajya Sabha MP Radha Mohan Agrawal were made national general secretaries. MLC and former Aligarh Muslim University vice-chancellor Tariq Mansoor, a Pasmanda Muslim, was appointed as BJP vice-president. Anil Antony, son of veteran Congress leader AK Antony, who joined the BJP earlier this year from Congress, has been inducted as national secretary.
BJP has dropped Karnataka leader CT Ravi and Dilip Saikia, a Lok Sabha MP from Assam, as its general secretaries. Sources told PTI both the leaders may be given tickets to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Former Union minister Radha Mohan Singh, a Lok Sabha MP from Bihar, has been dropped as a party vice-president. The fresh overhaul comes weeks after BJP appointed new state presidents in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Punjab and Jharkhand.
Union Minister D Purandeshwari was appointed as the new state president of Andhra Pradesh. Purandeswari, who had joined the BJP in 2014, is daughter of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) founder NT Rama Rao. She replaced Somu Veerraju.
Saroj Pandey, a Rajya Sabha MP from Chhattisgarh, has been made a vice president, while Dilip Ghosh, a Lok Sabha MP from West Bengal, has been dropped. Lata Usendi, a tribal leader from Chhattisgarh, has also been elevated to the post of vice president, underscoring the party's focus on the poll-bound state where the Congress is in power.
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