In a major organisational reshuffle, the BJP on Wednesday dropped Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from its parliamentary board — the party’s top decision-making body.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who led the BJP to a record re-election in the state, is the surprise exclusion after much speculation that he would be rewarded with a seat at the decision-making table.
The party included former Karnataka Chief Minister and Lingayat strongman B S Yediyurappa, Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal, former IPS officer Iqbal Singh Lalpura, former Lok Sabha MP Satyanarayan Jatiya, BJP National OBC Morcha president K Lakshman, and national secretary Sudha Yadav in the party’s parliamentary board.
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The parliamentary board is the top body in the BJP and decides on chief ministers, state chiefs and other key roles.
Mr Yediyurappa was forced to resign as Chief Minister last year over allegations of corruption. At 77, he is way past the party’s unwritten age bar of 75. Sources say the influential politician has been unhappy for some time and the party wanted to pacify him.
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