The BJP has appointed Tariq Mansoor a Muslim from UP as the Vice President of the party. This is to attract a Muslim vote bank for the party in the coming elections.
BJP president J P Nadda rejigged the list of the party’s central office-bearers today, bringing in a Pasmanda Muslim from Uttar Pradesh as one of its-vice presidents and accommodating its former Telangana unit chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar as a national general secretary.
There is a probability that Bandi might get the position of deputy Minister in the cabinet which is getting ready for a reshuffle.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has dropped C T Ravi, a leader from Karnataka, and Dilip Saikia, a Lok Sabha MP from Assam, as its general secretaries, with sources indicating that they may be contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) vice-chancellor Tariq Mansoor, now a BJP MLC in Uttar Pradesh, has been made a vice-president, a decision seen to be part of the party’s overtures to Pasmanda Muslims.
Most of the office-bearers have been retained as vice presidents, general secretaries, and secretaries in the new list.
There are 13 vice presidents, nine general secretaries, including B L Santhosh as the in-charge of organization, and 13 secretaries on the list.
