Vasundhara, Varun and Katiyar in Gadkari's new team

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin today inducted inducted former Chief Ministers Shanta Kumar of Himachal Pradesh and Bhagatsingh Koshiyari of Uttarakhand, hardliner Vinay Katiyar and actor-turned-politician Hema Malini as Vice-Presidents of the party.

Two other former Chief Ministers, Vasundhara Raje of Rajasthan and Arjun Munda of Jharkhand, have been brought in as General Secretaries while young Member of Parliament Varun Gandhi, television actress Smriti Irani and former Test cricketer Navjyot Singh Sidhu have been named as Secretaries.

The new 121-member National Executive announced by Mr Gadkari has 13 Vice-Presidents, 10 General Secretaries, 15 Secretaries and a Treasurer.

The other Vice-Presidents in the new team, which is a blend of youth and experience, include Mr Kalraj Mishra, Mr Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Ms Karuna Shukla, Ms Najma Heptullah,  Ms Bijoya Chakravarti, Mr Purshottam Rupala and Ms Kiran Ghai.

A party press release said that, as provided for in the BJP constitution, the office-bearers include as many as 13 women, which is 33 per cent of the total number. In all, there are 40 women in the National Executive.

Mr Gadkari has also constituted the BJP's Parliamentary Board. The release said the names of members of the Central Election Committee, Morcha Presidents and Conveners of different cells, besides some other functionaries, would be announced later.

Besides Ms Raje and Mr Munda, the other General Secretaries are Mr Ananth Kumar, Mr Thavarchand Gehlot, Mr Vijay Goyal, Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad (Chief Spokesperson), Mr Dharmendra Pradhan, Mr Narendrasingh Tomar, Mr Jagat Prakash Nadda, Mr Ram Lal (Organisation), Mr V Satish and Mr Saudan Singh (both Jt. Gen. Sec. Org).

The other Secretaries named today are Mr Santosh Gangwar, Ms Saroj Pande, Ms Kiran Maheshwar, Mr Tapir Gao, Mr Ashok Pradhan, Mr Muralidhar Rao, Dr Kirit Somaiyya, Dr Laxman, Capt Abhimanyu, Ms Arati Mehra, Mr Bhupendra Yadav and Ms Vani Tripathi.

Mr Piyush Goyal has been named as the party's Treasurer, while Mr Prakash Javdekar, Mr Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Mr Shahnawaz Hussain, Mr Ramnath Kovind, Mr Tarun Vijay and Ms Nirmala Sitharaman will be the spokespersons.

The following are the others in the National Executive:

  Members

1. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
2. Lal Krishna Advani
3. Murali Manohar Joshi
4. Bangaru Laxman
5. Venkaiah Naidu
6. Rajnath Singh
7. Sushma Swaraj
8. Arun Jaitley
9. Bal Apte
10. Yashwant Sinha
11. Gopinath Munde
12. S.S.Ahaluwalia
13. Arun Shourie
14. Balbir Punj
15. Chandan Mitra
16. Mridula Sinha
17. Shatrughna Sinha
18. Kaptansingh Solanki
19. Sumitra Mahajan
20. Jayavantiben Mehta
21. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe
22. Sheshadri Chari
23. Anita Arya
24. C. P. Thakur
25. Dilip Singh Judeo
26. Sudha Yadav
27. Ramtahal Chaudhari
28. Maneka Gandhi
29. Yogi Adityanath
30. Lalji Tandon
31. Hukumdev Narayan Yadav
32. J. K Jain
33. Anil Jain
34. Arun Singh
35. Nalin Kohli
36. Jayprakash Agrawal (Surya)
37. Punam Azad
38. Rekha Gupta
39. Pinki Anand
40. Hari Babu
41. Shanta Reddy
42. Sukhada Pande
43. Bhupendrasingh Chudasama
44. Balubhai Shukla
45. Omprakash Dhankad
46. Vinod Khanna
47. Kiran Kher
48. Arjun Meghwal
49. Subhash Mehriya
50. Suman Shringi
51. Manavendra Singh
52. Omkarsingh Lakhawat
53. H. Raja
54. Lalitha Kumar Mangalam
55. M. T. Ramesh
56. C. H. Vijayshankar
57. Gouri Chaoudhari
58. Bijoy Mahapatra
59. Surama Padhi
60. Shobhatai Phadanvis
61. Mahesh Jethamalani
62. Shaina N C
63. Manisha Chaudhari
64. Nana Shamkule
65. Kanta Nalavade
66. Louis Marandi
67. Sunil Singh
68. Faggansingh Kulaste
69. Virendra Kumar Khatik
70. Nirmala Bhuriya
71. Satpal Malik
72. Vijay Sonkar Shastri
73. Manoj Sinha
74. Sarla Singh
75. Rambux Verma
76. Hukum Singh
77. Sudhanshu Trivedi
78. Sadhvi Niranjana Jyoti
79. Ajay Tamta
80. Shanti Mehra
81. Ranjana Sahi

Permanent Invitees:
 
Chief Ministers:

1. Narendra Modi
2. Shivraj Singh Chauhan
3. Raman Singh
4. Premkumar Dhumal
5. B. S. Yediurappa
6. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank

Deputy Chief Ministers:

7. Sushil Modi
8. Raghuvar Das

Ex-Governors:

9. Kedarnath Sahni
10.Kailashpati Mishra
11.V. Rama Rao

Ex-Chief Ministers:

12. Sundarlal Patwa
13. Keshubhai Patel
14. Madanlal Khurana
15. B. C. Khanduri
16. Nityanand Swami
17. Kailash Joshi
18. Babulal Gaur
19. Manohar Parrikar

Legislature Leaders:

20. Ganga Prasad
21. V. S. Acharya
22. Vijay Kumar Malhotra
23.  Eknath Khadse
24. Bhausaheb Phundkar
25. Ghanashyam Tiwari (Officiating)
26. Om Prakash Singh
27. Nepal Singh
28. Mission Ranjan Das
29. Chaman Lal Gupta
30. K. V. Singhdev
31. Manoranjan Kalia
32. Tamigo Taga 
33. Anil Viz

Chief Whips in Parliament:

34. Ramesh Bains
35. Maya Singh

Parliamentary Party Secretary and Joint Secretary:

36. Ramkripal Sinha
37. Shanmuganathan

Others:
 
38. O.Rajgopal
39. Satyanarayan Jatiya
40. Kesarinath Tripathi
41. Devdas Apte (Bapu Apte)
42. Sadanand Gowda
43. Tanveer Hyder Osmani
44. Harsh Vardhan
45. Vidyasagar Rao
46. Bandaru Dattatreya
47. Vinod Pande
48. M. Bharot Singh
49. Rajen Gohain
50. Ramen Deka
51. Nilmani Dev
52. Vishnudeo Sai
53. Naresh Bansal
54. Harendra Pratap
55. Rambilas Sharma
56. Maheshwar Singh
57. Nirmal Singh
58. Rajendra Bhandari
59. Stayapal Jain
60. Gulabchand Katariya
61. Ramdas Agarwal
62. L. Ganeshan
63. C. K. Padmanabhan
64. Tathagat Roy
65. Yesso Naik
66. Rampyare Pande
67. Anant Nayak
68. Prakash Mehta
69. Vinod Tawde
70. Amit Thakar
71. Suresh Pujari
72. R. Ramkrishna
73. Om Prakash Kohli
74. Ramapati Ram Tripathi
75. Ashok Khajuriya
76. Mange Ram Garg
77. Jagdish Mukhi

Special Invitees:

1. Padmanabh Acharya
2. Sukumar Nambiyar
3. Baldev Prakash Tandon
4. Vijay Kapoor
5. Arun Sathe
6. Nand Kishor Garg
7. Vaman Acharya
8. Jagdish Shettigar
9.  Alok Kumar
10. Arun Adsad
11. S. Sureshkumar
12. C. S. Parcha
13. Gajendra Chauhan
14. Anandiben Patel
15. Amit Shah
16. Kishansingh Sangwan
17. Govind Karjal
18. Ramji Rishidev
19. Banvarilal Purohit
20. Haribhau Bagde
21. Chaitanya Kashyap
22. Hriday Narayan Dixit
23.Tanveer Ahmed
24. Rajesh Shah
25. Rajendra Agrawal
26. Bhupendra Thakur
27. Harjit Singh Grewal
28. Ravikant Garg
29. Suvarn Saleriya
30. Col. Bainsala
31. Siddharthanath Singh
32. Uday Bhaskar Nayar
33. Kavita Khanna
34. Amitabh Sinha
35. Ashutosh Varshneya
36. Ajay Sancheti

The following are the members of the BJP Parliamentary Board

1. Nitin Gadkari, Chairman
2. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
3. Lal Krishna Advani
4. Murali Manohar Joshi
5. Venkaiah Naidu
6. Rajnath Singh
7. Sushma Swaraj
8. Arun Jaitley
9. Bal Apte
10. Ananth Kumar (Secretary)
11. Thavarchand Gehlot
12. Ram Lal

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