BJP Organisational Reshuffle: Nitin Nabin Unveils New Team Featuring Smriti Irani, Ram Madhav

BJP Organisational Reshuffle: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced its new national office-bearers on Monday, about seven months after Nitin Nabin took over as the party’s 12th national president.

Smriti Irani appointed BJP general secretary: Former Union minister Smriti Irani is now one of the party’s eight national general secretaries.

Ram Madhav appointed BJP Vice President: Senior leader Ram Madhav, who was earlier a national general secretary, has been named vice president.

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BJP Organisational Reshuffle: Biplab Deb, Piyush Goyal Get Key Roles

Biplab Kumar Deb, who was chief minister of Tripura, has also been named a national general secretary.

Piyush Goyal appointed BJP Treasurer: Union minister Piyush Goyal is now the party’s treasurer, a position he also held from 2010 to 2014. Anil Baluni will remain the party's media in-charge.

PM Modi Congratulates New Office-Bearers as Party Names 8 National General Secretaries

BJP National Office Bearers List: Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the new office-bearers on X, saying the team brings experience, energy, and a strong connection to the grassroots.

Modi said he is confident they will strengthen the party and focus on public service, and he wished them well. The party has named eight national general secretaries in total.

BJP organisational reshuffle: Only Vinod Tawde and Sunil Bansal remain from the previous team.

Both played important roles as election in-charges in several state polls and have been kept on with the upcoming assembly elections in mind, including the key Uttar Pradesh polls early next year.

Bansal played a key role in West Bengal, while Tawde led the Kerala polls and has also served as the party’s Bihar in-charge.

Tawde oversaw the Kerala elections and also handled Bihar, where he managed the leadership change from Nitish Kumar to Samrat Choudhary as chief minister.

Harish Dwivedi, Satish Poonia, Gajendra Patel, and Sanjay Bhatia Named New BJP National General Secretaries

BJP Organisational Reshuffle: The new national general secretaries are Harish Dwivedi, a former MP from Basti who recently managed Assam and comes from an upper-caste background; Satish Poonia, who led the BJP in Rajasthan and is an OBC leader; Gajendra Patel, an ST leader from Madhya Pradesh; and Sanjay Bhatia.

Arun Singh, who was general secretary since 2015, and Radha Mohan Das Agrawal, who became general secretary in 2023 after leaving his Gorakhpur assembly seat for chief minister Yogi Adityanath, are among them.

Both Agrawal and Singh are Rajya Sabha MPs. Tarun Chugh, who was recently elected to the Rajya Sabha, is now the party’s office-in-charge for Punjab, which is preparing for elections.

After Delhi Defeat, Prominent Dalit Leader Gautam Removed From Key Party Post in Major Organisational Shake-Up

Gautam, a well-known Dalit leader who lost in the 2025 Delhi assembly elections, has also been dropped from his post.

He had been a general secretary since September 2020 and was the party’s state in-charge for Uttarakhand.

In 2022, he was involved in a controversy after his name was wrongly linked to the Ankita Bhandari murder case in Uttarakhand.

He later filed a defamation lawsuit against the political parties and individuals involved. The Delhi High Court passed interim orders directing the removal of social media posts linking him to the murder case.

Bhola Singh, a three-term MP from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh’s SC constituency, and Kavita Patidar, a Rajya Sabha MP and OBC leader from Madhya Pradesh, have also been named national secretaries, along with 14 others.

BJP Broadens National Team with Regional Leaders, Academics, and Medical Professionals

BJP Organisational Reshuffle: Through these appointments, the BJP aims to unite young leaders with experienced politicians. About 40 per cent of the office-bearers come from marginalised communities.

The party is also trying to include leaders from all major regions of the country.

The BJP has picked Phangnon Konyak, a Rajya Sabha MP from Nagaland, and former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb as national general secretaries to represent the northeastern states.

From southern India, D. Purandeswari from Andhra Pradesh has become a national vice president, and M. Venkatesan from Tamil Nadu is the new national secretary.

The party has also brought in academics and a doctor. Dr Swadesh Singh, a former ABVP activist at JNU and now a professor at Delhi University, is a new national secretary.

Cancer specialist Madhuchandra Kar and Professor M. Nagaraj from Karnataka are both new national vice presidents.

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