New Delhi: The BJP announced national office-bearers for its youth wing on Tuesday, appointing seven leaders as national vice-presidents and three others as national general secretaries.
Yuva Morcha president and Vadodara MP Hemang Joshi announced the names. 'As per the directive of the Bharatiya Janata Party national president Nitin Nabin, the following members are being appointed as national office-bearers of BJP Yuva Morcha,' Joshi said in a statement. The appointments take effect immediately, he added.
Jammu and Kashmir MLA Shagun Parihar and West Bengal MLA Soumen Karfa are among the seven national vice-presidents. Others are Nikhil Mani Tiwari from Uttar Pradesh, Arvind Damani from Nagaland, Maloth Komali Naik from Telangana, Rajendra Singh from Bihar and Bhupendra Nag from Chhattisgarh.
The party made Bihar MLA Maithili Thakur, also a popular folk singer, a member of the Yuva Morcha's national executive alongside 33 others from various states.
Those appointed national general secretaries are Arpita Aparajita Badjena from Odisha, Harsh Vardhan Singh from Uttar Pradesh and Mitta Vamshi Krishna from Andhra Pradesh. Biswajit Khound from Assam, Ashish Jhala from Madhya Pradesh, Sayali Raghunath Kulkarni from Maharashtra, Himanshu Sharma from Rajasthan, Sardar Armaanjot Brar from Punjab, Aman Yadav from Jharkhand and Rahul Jha from Bihar will serve as national secretaries.
Vineet Vats Tyagi from Uttar Pradesh was appointed national treasurer, while Devvrat Singh Rajawat from Rajasthan was made national joint treasurer.
Among the 34 new national executive members, five are from Uttar Pradesh, while two each are from Bihar, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. The remaining 17 are one each from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Ladakh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Puducherry, Punjab, Telangana, Tripura and West Bengal.