Rajnath Singh led BJP has retained Himachal Pradesh BJP leader Anurag Thakur as the party’s national Yuva Morcha chief (BJYM). Thakur, a two-time Lok Sabha member from Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh, was entrusted with the second term for the coveted post.
Anurag Thakur thanked the party high-command and vowed to utilize the opportunity to further rejuvenate the organisation in the run up to the next general elections. Thakur said that it’s recognition of the Morcha’s work done in highlighting corruption and the failures of the government on the economic and internal security front.
The major highlight of Thakur’s tenure as the Morcha chief was the national Ekta Yatra taken out in January 2011. He was arrested along with other senior BJP leaders on Jammu-Srinagar border while they were on their way to Srinagar to hoist the national flag at Lal Chowk on Republic Day.
Anurag Thakur also a President Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association and had became youngest President of Himachal Pradesh State Cricket Association at the age of 25. He was also a youngest national selector at the age of 26 years in the year 2001 to select Indian Junior Cricket teams.
Thakur is also a President of State Rifle Association, Himachal Pradesh and General Secretary, Himachal Pradesh Olympic Association, General Secretary, Hockey Himachal Pradesh. He is also an Executive Member, India Olympic Association and hold the post of Joint secretary, BCCI.
Another BJP leader from Himachal Pradesh JP Nadda was also retained on the post of General Secretaries. However Senior Leader Shanta Kumar was not listed in the new team.
List of BJP’s new Parliamentary Board:
BJP Central Parliamentary Board:
Rajnath Singh (President)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Lal Krishna Advani
Dr Murli Manohar Joshi
M Venkeya Naidu
Nitin Gadkari
Sushma Swaraj
Arun Jaitely
Narendra Modi
Ananth Kumar
Thawarchand Gehlot
Ramlal (GS Org)
Vice Presidents:
Sadananda Gauda
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Dr CP Thakur
Jual Urao
SS Ahluwalia
Balbir Punj
Satpal Malik
Prabhat Jha
Uma Bharti
Bijyo Chakravarti
Lakxmikanta Chawla
Kiran Maheshwari
Smriti Irani
BJP General Secretaries:
Ananth Kumar
Thawarchand Gehlot
JP Nadda
Dharmendra Pradhan
Tapir Gaon
Amit Shah
Varun Gandhi
Rajeev Pratap Rudy
Murlidhar Rao
Ramlal (GS Org)
Secretaries:
Shyam Jaju
Bhupendra Yadav
Krishna Das
Dr Anil Jain
Vinod Pandey
Trivendra Rawat
Rameshwar Chaurasiya
Aarti Mehra
Renu Kushwaha
Sudha Yadav
Sudha Malaiya
Poonam Mahajan
Luies Marandi
Dr Tamil Isai
Sushree Vani Tripathi
Central Election Committee:
Rajnath Singh (President)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Lal Krishna Advani
Dr Murli Manohar Joshi
M Venkeya Naidu
Nitin Gadkari
Sushma Swaraj
Arun Jaitely
Narendra Modi
Ananth Kumar
Thawarchand Gehlot
Ramlal (GS Org)
Gopinath Mundey
Jual Oran
Sayyeb Shahnawaj Hussain
Vinay Katiyar
JP Nadda
Dr Harshwardhan
Saroj Pandey (Ex-Officio)
Central Disciplinary Committee:
Radha Mohan Singh (President)
Jagdeesh Mukhi (Secretary)
L Ganeshan (Member)
Hari Babu (Member)
Shyam Nandan Singh (Member)
Joint General Secretaries (Org):
V Satish
Soudan Singh
Treasurer:
Piyush Goyel
Headquarter Incharge:
OP Kohli
Spokespersons:
Prakash Jawdekar
Shaha Nawaj Hussain
Nirmla Sitaraman
Vijay Sonkar Shashtri
Dr Sudhanshu Trivedi
Meenakshi Lekhi
Capt Abhimanyu
Presidents of Morchas:
Kisan Morcha – Om Prakash Dhankar
Mahila Morcha – Saroj Pandey
Yuva Morcha – Anurag Thakur
SC Morcha – Dr Sanjay Paswan
ST Morcha – Faggan Singh Kulaste
Minority Morcha – Abdul rashid