BJP shake-up: Gadkari & Shivraj out of Parliamentary Board, Yediyurappa among six in | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express
Party also rejigs Central Election Committee; Bhupendra Yadav & Devendra Fadnavis among its new members, Shahnawaz Hussain dropped.
The BJP on Wednesday restructured its Parliamentary Board, the party’s apex decision-making body, and the Central Election Committee (CEC) after eight years, dropping Union minister Nitin Gadkari and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
The party included six new faces in the 11-member Parliamentary Board, among them former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and former IPS officer Iqbal Singh Lalpura, the first Sikh leader to become a member of the BJP’s apex body. Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Other Backward Classes (OBC) Morcha chief K Laxman, former MP Sudha Yadav, and former Union Minister Satyanarayan Jatiya are the other new members of the board. All 11 members of the Parliamentary Board are also part of the election committee, which has some additional members.
“The constitution of the team is significant as it shows that the party leadership is in full preparation mode for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections,” said a party functionary.
The move to drop Gadkari from the two decision-making bodies comes amid the Opposition’s attempts to project some of his recent public remarks as a commentary on the functioning of the BJP leadership.
At a function in Nagpur last month, the Union minister said, “Politics has been a part of the social movement since the time of Mahatma Gandhi. Later, its focus shifted towards the goal of nation-building and development. What we are seeing today is 100 per cent only about staying in power. Politics is a true means of social and economic reform and therefore today’s politicians should work for the development of education, arts etc in the society.”
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