Punjab Politics: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday constituted a new core committee for its Punjab unit. The 17 members of the committee include former Congress leaders Amarinder Singh and Sunil Jakhar. After joining the core committee, the stature of both the leaders has increased. Amarinder and Jakhar were also made members of the BJP’s national executive last week.
Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh quit the Congress ahead of the state assembly elections, while Jakhar, a former Lok Sabha member, left the party in May. The party said that after discussing with the national president JP Nadda, BJP’s state unit chief Ashwani Sharma announced the core committee for Punjab.
According to the list of new appointments, former Congress leaders Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi and Fatehjung Singh Bajwa have also been made members of the core committee. According to the list, other members of the committee include Union Ministers Som Prakash, Avinash Rai Khanna, Sarabjit Singh Virk, Manoranjan Kalia, Rajinder Bhandari, Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina, Jaswinder Dhillon, Vijay Sampla, Manthri Srinivasu, Shwet Malik, Tikshan Sood and Subhash Sharma. Are included. The BJP has also constituted a nine-member finance committee of the Punjab unit.
List of 58 new office bearers of Punjab released
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Earlier, BJP had released the list of 58 new office bearers of Punjab on Saturday. BJP’s national president JP Nadda had approved the appointment of these office bearers. These office bearers include 11 State Vice Presidents, 11 State Secretaries and 5 General Secretaries.
Apart from this, in view of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, BJP has made former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and former state Congress chief Sunil Jakhar as members of the party’s all-important national executive. It includes many ministers including PM Modi, BJP chief JP Nadda, Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh.
Former Punjab minister Rana Gurmeet Sodhi has been appointed as a special invitee to the committee, the top deliberative body of the BJP. This committee sets the political agenda for the workers. In this, along with Amarinder Singh and Jakhar, former UP BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh is also included in the executive. With the new members, the membership of the committee has increased to 83.