BJP unveils new team: Vasundhara Raje, Ram Madhav named vice presidents; BL Santhosh, Smriti Irani in key roles

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• Former Union minister Smriti Irani, former Tripura chief minister Biplab Deb, Sunil Bansal, Vinod Tawde, Satish Poonia, Gajendra Patel, Harish…
• Uttarakhand former chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat, former Union minister Bharti Pawar, Manpreet Singh Badal and Tariq Mansoor were also…
• While Baijayant Jay Panda, Rekha Verma and Madhuchandra Kar have been retained in the post, the party said, m Nagaraja…
• While the party named 16 national secretaries, including former AAP leader Sandeep Pathak, Anil Antony and Rohan Gupta, union Minister…

The BJP on Monday announced its new national team under party president Nitin Nabin, naming 13 national vice presidents, including Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Ram Madhav and D Purandeshwari.

The saffron party retained B L Santhosh as National General Secretary (Organisation).

Former Union minister Smriti Irani, former Tripura chief minister Biplab Deb, Sunil Bansal, Vinod Tawde, Satish Poonia, Gajendra Patel, Harish Dwivedi and Sanjay Bhatia have been appointed national general secretaries, the party said.

Uttarakhand former chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat, former Union minister Bharti Pawar, Manpreet Singh Badal and Tariq Mansoor were also named vice presidents.

While Baijayant Jay Panda, Rekha Verma and Madhuchandra Kar have been retained in the post, the party said, m Nagaraja, Lal Singh Arya and Varshaben Doshi have been appointed as BJP national vice presidents.

The party named Shivprakash and Saudan Singh as national joint general secretaries (Organisation).

While the party named 16 national secretaries, including former AAP leader Sandeep Pathak, Anil Antony and Rohan Gupta, union Minister Piyush Goyal has been appointed treasurer.