New Delhi: Maneka Gandhi reacted to her removal from the National Executive Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The MP from Sultanpur said that it is not a big deal and not being in the National Executive Committee hardly makes any difference.
“The National Executive Committee changes every year. It is the party’s decision to change the committee,” she said. Maneka Gandhi asked, ‘I have been in the National Executive Committee for 25 years, if it is changed then what is the big deal in this.
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He made it clear that newcomers in the National Executive Committee should be given a chance and their expulsion was not a cause for concern.
BJP President JP Nadda had announced the party’s national executive on 7 October. Many leaders including Maneka Gandhi and her son Varun Gandhi were removed from it.
Jyotiraditya Scindia, who left Congress and joined BJP, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav, Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri have been appointed as new members of the National Executive.
Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan and Nirmala Sitharaman will continue to be part of the National Executive Committee.
Union ministers Rao Inderjit Singh, Prahlad Patel, Subramanian Swamy, Suresh Prabhu, Vasundhara Raje, Dushyant Singh, Vijay Goel, Vinay Katiyar and SS Ahluwalia also did not find a place in the new National Executive Committee.
The National Executive Committee of the BJP discusses various issues and outlines the working of the organization.
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