Months after Nitin Nabin took charge as BJP national president, the party on Monday unveiled a revamped team of national office-bearers, bringing in several new faces ahead of upcoming elections.Among the major changes, Amit Malviya, who had for years been identified with the BJP’s national IT operation and was retained as IT cell head in an earlier organisational revamp, does not figure in the new list. The BJP has appointed Deepak Mhaske as social media convener, while Priti Gandhi, Shivanand Dwivedi, Alok Bhatt and Arun Yadav have been named social media co-convenors.Malviya’s profile on X, however, continues to describe him as the “in-charge of BJP’s National Information and Technology Dept”.The party has also given Anil Baluni charge of its communications strategy as media coordinator. He will be assisted by joint coordinators Ashish Usha Agarwal, Pradeep Bhandari and Siddharth Yadav.The revamp assumes importance as it comes ahead of a string of state elections, including the crucial Uttar Pradesh polls. The new team includes 12 women across key organisational roles, while leaders from Uttar Pradesh have a particularly strong presence ahead of the 2027 assembly election.The BJP has appointed 13 vice presidents, including Ram Madhav, Lok Sabha MP D Purandeshwari and former Uttarakhand chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat.Union minister Piyush Goyal has been appointed national treasurer.The party has retained B L Santhosh as National General Secretary (Organisation), while former Union minister Smriti Irani and former Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb have been inducted into the team of eight national general secretaries.Vinod Tawde and Sunil Bansal are the only two national general secretaries retained in the new team.The BJP has also brought in several new faces, including Kavita Patidar, K Surendran, Sandeep Pathak and Manoj Tigga, among its 16 national secretaries drawn from different states.
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Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Baijayant Jay Panda and Rekha Verma have been named vice presidents.Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the newly appointed national office-bearers and said the team brings together organisational experience, energy and grassroots connect.“Congratulations to the newly appointed national office bearers of the BJP and those who have been given various responsibilities in the party. This newly appointed team brings together organisational experience, energy and grassroots connect,” PM Modi said on X.