BJP highest decision making body – BS Yediyurappa In ,Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Out

New Delhi: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has been dropped from the BJP’s highest decision-making body in an organisational revamp in which leaders like Devendra Fadnavis and BS Yediyurappa have scored after recent setbacks.

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.

Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has been included in the party’s rejigged parliamentary board, which now has four new faces.

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.

Nitin Gadkari’s omission from the important committee is the biggest shocker in this exercise. Mr Gadkari, one of the most senior ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, is a former BJP chief and the party has traditionally kept its former presidents in the decision-making process.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has also been dropped. It is a huge blow to the man who has been Chief Minister for 20 years.

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, also a former BJP chief, has made a reentry into the parliamentary board.

Former Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who agreed to make way for Himanta Biswa Sarma after the BJP was re-elected in the state, has been named in the parliamentary board as well as the Central Election Committee.

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