BJP revamps top brass

Pramod Mahajan, who along with Sanjay Joshi, continues to be the general secretary in the new team, has been assigned the task of gearing up the party for the Assembly elections in Maharashtra slated later this year.

Naidu who kept the reconstitution of his team in abeyance after taking over as the party chief in view of the Lok Sabha elections, has given representation to all sections of society in the reconstituted Central Office Bearers, frontal organisations and National Executive, party spokesman Arun Jaitley told reporters while releasing the list.

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Shivraj Singh Chauhan, who was National Secretary, has been made general secretary and also given the responsibility of secretary of Parliamentary Board and Central Election Committee, a post held by Mahajan.

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who has been elevated to the post of vice president from general secretary, continues to be spokesman with additional responsibility of headquarters-in-charge.

Besides Naqvi and Jaitley, former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha has been made party spokesperson while first time member of parliament from Barmer, Manvendra Singh would be additional spokesperson.

Naidu has dropped Ramdas Aggarwal as treasurer replacing him with Sukumar Nambiar who had held this post during the presidentship of M Jana Krishnamurthy.