Massive Rejig In BJP Parliamentary Board : Nitin Gadkari, Shivraj Singh Chouhan Dropped ; In Comes Sarbananda Sonowal, B S Yediyurappa

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In a massive rejig Bharatiya Janata Party has dropped Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from its parliamentary board and brought in six new faces including B S Yediyurappa and Iqbal Singh Lalpura.

Reacting to inclusion of B S Yediyurappa , Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai tweeted, I’m very happy to have former Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa as a member of the BJP Parliamentary Board & Central Election Committee. Karnataka BJP has now gained elephant power; certain to win state assembly elections in 2023″

Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, K Laxman, Sudha Sadav and Satyanarayan Jatiya are the other new members of the BJP’s apex organisational body — an attempt by the party to make the parliamentary board more socially and regionally representative.

Lalpura will be the first Sikh to have a seat in the BJP parliamentary board as a person from a minority community.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh and BJP president J P Nadda are among its members.

The party also rejigged its Central Election Committee and included former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Union Minister Bhupender Yadav, Om Mathur and its women wing chief Vanathi Srinivasan.

Former Union minister Shahnawaz Hussain and Jual Oram have been dropped from the CEC, whose members also include all parliamentary board members.