BHOPAL: Fifteen leaders from Madhya Pradesh have been included in the BJP national executive committee announced by party national president J P Nadda on Thursday.
Prominent among the new faces are civil aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia, who joined the party in March 2020, and state home minister Narottam Mishra.
There are 80 members in the executive, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union ministers Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari and Rajnath Singh. Shivraj Singh Chouhan is among the 179 permanent invitees as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh and Uma Bharti, as former chief minister of the state.
Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar (agriculture) and Virendra Khatik (social justice) from MP are also on the panel.
Mishra’s inclusion signifies a big leap in his political career. He has handled election management for the party in Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and, recently, West Bengal.
For Scindia, who broke away from Congress with 22 MLAs in March last year, bringing down the 15-month Kamal Nath regime, it’s an indication that he has been fully accepted and accommodated in BJP.
Party national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, who is in charge of Bengal, has been retained. Others from the state are former MP Om Prakash Dhurve, who is party national secretary, and Mandsaur MP Sudheer Gupta, the party’s joint treasurer. Bhind MP Sandhya Ray and Mandla MP Faggan Singh Kulaste are special invitees.
State party chief VD Sharma, organizational general secretaries Suhas Bhagat and Hitanand Sharma and Jabalpur MP Rakesh Singh, who is chief whip in Parliament, are also in the committee.
