JP Nadda, the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), reorganised the party’s parliamentary board on Wednesday by appointing former chief minister of Karnataka BS Yediyurappa, federal minister Sarbananda Sonowal, and former minister Satyanarayan Jatiya.
Shivraj Singh Chauhan, the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, and former BJP president Nitin Gadkari have been removed off the board. When the parliamentary board was formed by the then-president Amit Shah in August 2014, Chouhan was the last BJP leader to be elected to the top panel of the party.
The decision to reorganise the parliamentary board was anticipated, especially in light of the five vacancies that have developed in the body’s 11 members starting in 2017, when board member M Venkaiah Naidu was elevated to vice president of the nation. Three significant party leaders passed away over the subsequent two years, Ananth Kumar in 2018, Arun Jaitley in 2019, and Sushma Swaraj in 2019. As a result, there were more vacancies.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP Chief JP Nadda, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Other Backward Classes (OBC) Morcha President K Laxman, National Commission for Minorities Chairman Iqbal Singh Lalpura, former BJP vice president Sudha Yadav, and former minister Satyanarayan Jatiya make up the new 11-member board in addition to Yediyurappa and Sonowal.
The parliamentary board has the authority to monitor and control party legislative and parliamentary activities, direct the creation of ministries, and control all organisational units that are subordinate to the national executive. Additionally, it has the authority to take necessary action in response to any violation of discipline by members or office holders of state units.
The party’s central electoral committee was also reconstituted by Nadda. Currently, the 15-member board is made up of PM Modi, JP Nadda, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Sarbananda Sonowal, BS Yediyurappa, K Laxman, Iqbal Singh Lalpura, Sudha Yadav, Om Mathur, BL Santhosh, Satyanarayan Jatiya, Bhupendra Yadav, Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis
Former Union minister Jual Oram and Shahnawaz Hussain are not the part of central eelection committee anymore.
