Assembly elections in UP, Punjab and Gujarat are schedule next year.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday announced new incharges for poll-bound states – Punjab, Gujarat and Haryana.
Newly-appointed BJP national general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Satish Poonia was made in-charge of party affairs in Punjab, according to a notification issued by the party.
Nabin made Rajya Sabha MP Tarun Chugh in-charge of party affairs in Gujarat.
Rajya Sabha MP Vinod Tawde and national general secretary has been appointed as in-charge of party affairs in Uttar Pradesh and newly appointed national secrety Jagdish Ishwarbhai Patel as co-in-charge.
"These appointments will come into effect immediately. The appointment of other state in-charges will be made in due course; meanwhile, the current Prabhari arrangement will continue," the BJP said in a circular.
Assembly elections in these three states are schedule next year. While the assembly elections in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh are due early next year, Gujarat will go to polls later in 2027.
A day after Team Nabin rejig
The fresh list comes a day after the saffron party overhauled its national team under party president Nitin Nabin, bringing in many new faces and some prominent leaders like former Union minister Smriti Irani as general secretary and former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) functionary Ram Madhav as vice president.
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The party has maintained the right balance between youth and experience.
The party, which said it has maintained the right balance between youth and experience, also appointed Union Minister Piyush Goyal as its new national tresurer.
The number of vice presidents in the new team has been increased to 13 from 11, out of which nine are new. The total number of national general secretaries has also been increased to eight from the previous seven.
The BJP's new team has 16 national secretaries. There were 11 national secretaries in the previous team.
Tawde and Sunil Bansal are the only two national general secretaries that the BJP has retained in its new team. Poonia, former Rajasthan BJP president, is one of the new faces brought into the team of eight national general secretaries.
According to party sources, both Tawde and Bansal were rewarded for their impressive organisational work. Sources said the party noted Bansal's contribution to the BJP's victory in the West Bengal Assembly polls.
Tarun Chugh, a BJP Rajya Sabha MP, has been made the party's central office in-charge in place of Rajya Sabha MP Arun Singh.
(With agency inputs)
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