Senior BJP leader and Kendrapara MP Baijayant Jay Panda has retained his post as the party’s National Vice-President following the announcement of the new national office-bearers by BJP president Nitin Nabin on Monday.
Panda is among 13 leaders designated as National Vice-Presidents within the BJP’s newly structured organizational team. His re-appointment secures a prominent voice for Odisha within the party’s central leadership framework.
The BJP announced a comprehensive list of new national office-bearers, with the appointments taking effect immediately.
A party press release said that party President Nitin Nabin has approved the appointments of members to various key organisational positions.
The thirteen national Vice Presidents also include Vasundhara Raje from Rajasthan and Tirath Singh Rawat from Uttarakhand, Ram Madhav from Delhi, D Purandeshwari from Andhra Pradesh, Rekha Verma from Uttar Pradesh, Varshaben Narendrabhai Doshi from Gujarat, Bharti Pravin Pawar from Maharashtra, Manpreet Singh Badal from Punjab, Lal Singh Arya from Madhya Pradesh, M. Nagaraja from Karnataka, Prof. Tariq Mansoor from Uttar Pradesh, and Madhuchandra Kar from West Bengal.
Former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb and former Union Minister Smriti Irani have been appointed the General Secretaries. B.L. Santhosh from Delhi has been retained as national General Secretary, Organisation. The national Joint General Secretaries, Organisation, are Shivprakash from Mumbai and Saudan Singh from Chandigarh.
The new national General Secretaries also include Vinod Tawde (Maharashtra), Sunil Bansal (Delhi), Satish Poonia (Rajasthan), Gajendra Patel (Madhya Pradesh), Harish Dwivedi (Uttar Pradesh), and Sanjay Bhatia (Haryana).
A larger group of 16 leaders has been appointed National Secretaries. The list includes Kavita Patidar (Madhya Pradesh), K. Surendran (Kerala), Bhola Singh (Uttar Pradesh), Pradip Varma (Jharkhand), Jagdish Ishwarbhai Patel (Gujarat), Sandeep Pathak (Delhi), Phangnon Konyak (Nagaland), Smt. Sangeeta Yadav (Uttar Pradesh), Anil Antony (Kerala), Dr M. Venkateshan (Tamil Nadu), Manoj Tigga (West Bengal), Siddharth Shambhu (Bihar), Dr Swadesh Singh (Delhi), Mriganka Deo Barman (Assam), Rohan Gupta (Gujarat), and Jai Prakash (Delhi).
