Nitin Gadkari and Shivraj Singh leave from BJP Parliamentary Board, Yeddyurappa inducted
BJP Parliamentary Board has been constituted afresh. It is the highest decision-making body of the party. As part of the major changes made in the BJP Parliamentary Board, former president Nitin Gadkari and Shivraj Singh Chouhan have been removed while former Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa has been included in it. Apart from PM Narendra Modi, the members of the BJP Parliamentary Board also include Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah, senior ministers of his cabinet. It is surprising that Nitin Gadkari is out of this important committee. Gadkari is a senior minister in the Narendra Modi cabinet, he has also held the responsibility of BJP President. Usually the party involves its former president in the decision-making process.
According to an official release issued by the party, Rajya Sabha member and party’s Other Backward Classes (OBC) Morcha National President K Laxman, Minorities Commission Chairman Iqbal Singh Lalpura, party’s National Secretary and former MP Sudha Yadav and senior leader Former MP Satyanarayan Jatiya has been made a member of the Parliamentary Board.
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Union Minister and former BJP President Rajnath Singh has again made a place in the Parliamentary Board. The most shocking face in the Parliamentary Board is Karnataka BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa, who has resigned from the post of CM of the state only last year. Yeddyurappa, 77, has crossed the party’s ‘unwritten’ age limit. Sources reveal that Yeddyurappa has been upset for some time, in such a situation, he has tried to ‘satisfy’ him by giving him a place in the Parliamentary Board. Former CM Sarbananda Sonowala, who vacated the post of CM in Assam this time for Himanta Biswa Sarma, has also been given a place in the Central Election Committee along with the Parliamentary Board.
Along with this, the names of 15 members of the Central Election Committee have been announced in a release issued by BJP General Secretary Arun Singh. The release said that BJP National President JP Nadda has constituted the Central Election Committee of the party whose members will be as follows – JP Nadda (President), Narendra Modi, Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, BS Yeddyurappa, Sarbananda Sonowal, K. Laxman, Iqbal Singh Lalpura, Sudha Yadav, Satyanarayan Jatiya, Bhupendra Yadav, Devendra Fadnavis, Om Mathur, BL Santosh and Mrs. Banathi Srinivas.
Apart from all the members of the Parliamentary Board, the CEC consists of eight other members. Since Gadkari and Chouhan were members of the CEC as they were members of the parliamentary board, they have also been discharged from this important unit of the party. According to the BJP constitution, apart from the party president, there can be 10 other parliamentary board members. The president of the party is also the chairman of the parliamentary board. The leader of the party in Parliament is required to be included in the other 10 members. One of the general secretaries of the party is nominated as the secretary of the board.
Chouhan is the only Chief Minister who was a member of the Parliamentary Board for a long time. When Shah became the BJP president in 2014, he had given Chouhan a place in the parliamentary board. Shah had then removed senior leaders Lal Krishna Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi from the parliamentary board and put them in the board of guidance.
In the reorganization of the Parliamentary Board, the BJP has also taken great care of social and regional representation. Lalpura is the first Sikh leader to make it to the BJP parliamentary board. He will represent the minority community in it. Sonowal is the first tribal leader from Northeast India to be included in the BJP parliamentary board.
Sudha Yadav has been included as a representative of women, while K Laxman comes from the OBC community and belongs to Telangana. Yediyurappa hails from Karnataka and belongs to the dominant Lingayat community there. In this way, two leaders from the South have been given place in the Parliamentary Board. Assembly elections are to be held in Karnataka and Telangana next year.
After these changes, there is no vacancy in the Parliamentary Board and CEC anymore. After becoming the President of BJP in the year 2020, Nadda has changed these for the first time. The parliamentary board had several vacancies since the demise of former union ministers Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj and M Venkaiah Naidu becoming the vice-president and Thaawarchand Gehlot as the governor.
BJP sources said that they have been ‘rewarded’ by giving them a place on the parliamentary board, respecting the old workers and their experiences. He said Yeddyurappa, Jatiya and Laxman had spent their lives for the party and contributed significantly to the party’s rise.
A party leader said, “In these changes emphasis has also been laid on diversity. Sonowal is from the Northeast, Yediyurappa and Laxman are from the South. The Sikh community is also represented in it in the form of Lalpura.” He said that Sudha Yadav has made her own place in politics, whose husband was martyred in the Kargil war.
