BJP rejigs Parliamentary Board: Inducts Yediurappa, Sonowal drops Gadkari

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In a major organisational rejig Bhartiya Janata Party President J P Nadda inducted former karnataka Chief minister B S Yediurappa, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and former minister Satyanarayana Jatiya into BJP’s Parliamentary board.

BJP droped Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Parliamentary board.

Former IPS officer Iqbal Singh Lalpura, former Lok Sabha MP Satyanarayan Jatiya, BJP National OBC Morcha president K Lakshman, and national secretary Sudha Yadav have also been inducted in BJP’s parliamentary board, which is party’s apex organisation and decision making body.

As per the new list released by the BJP President JP Nadda on Wednesday, 11 members are the part of the parliamentary board which includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nadda himself .

The reshuffle is believed to be an attempt by the BJP to make its parliamentary board more socially and regionally representative.

BJP also released a list of the members of party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) in which Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, BJP National General Secretary Bhupender Yadav, Om Mathur and its women wing chief Vanathi Srinivasan have been included.

Former Union minister Shahnawaz Hussain and Jual Oran have however been dropped.

All the parliamentary board members are also part of the CEC.