BJP’s Lok Sabha MP Varun Gandhi and his mother and former Union minister Maneka Gandhi did not find a place in the 80-member national executive list announced by the party’s national president JP Nadda on Thursday.
Varun had posted tweets condemning the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, in which farmers and a journalist were killed, and particularly criticizing the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh. Party sources say that this might not have gone down well with the top leadership of the BJP.
From PM Narendra Modi to veterans LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, there are names in the list of 80-member national executive.
Former Law Minister Subramanian Swamy, who often criticizes the policies of the BJP government, is another major boycott from the list. Former Lok Sabha MP Vinay Katiyar and former Union minister SS Ahluwalia are among those who have been dropped from the list.
Apart from 80 regular members, the executive committee will have 50 special invitees and 179 permanent invitees.
The new members include Jyotiraditya Scindia, who joined the BJP from the Congress in 2019 and was made Union Aviation Minister in the recent cabinet reshuffle, Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnav and Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani.
Interestingly, some members from West Bengal have been included in the national executive, including actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty, former Union minister Dinesh Trivedi, Anirban Ganguly and Swapna Dasgupta. Another, Rajiv Banerjee, who joined the BJP earlier this year just ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections and recently congratulated Mamata Banerjee on her Bhawanipur victory, has indicated a return to the TMC’s court.
Tamil actress Khushboo Sundar, who joined BJP in October 2020, is also in the list.
The first meeting of the new national executive is scheduled to be held in Delhi on November 7, which will be the first meeting under the leadership of Nadda, who took over as BJP national president in 2020 from Amit Shah.
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