Those with proximity to the RSS have more chance in Team Shah
Those with proximity to the RSS have more chance in Team Shah
New Delhi: As vacancies have been created in BJP chief Amit Shah’s team, speculation is rife that Om Mathur and Kailash Vijayvargiya, who were party’s election in-charge in Maharashtra and Haryana respectively could be accommodated.
National vice presidents Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Bandaru Dattatreya along with general secretaries J.P. Nadda, Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Ram Shankar Katheriya are now part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Council of Ministers. Another vice-president Kiran Maheshwari is also part of the Vasundhara Raje’s government.
Speculation is rife that leaders having proximity to the RSS have a better chance in being accommodated. Also, the party could bring down the number of its various cells to almost one-third. There were more than 40 different cells in the BJP which were recently dissolved by Mr Shah. BJP leader Mahendra Pandey, has been giving the task to trim down the number of cells and merge some of the cells.
To pacify Himachal Pradesh’s former chief minister P.K. Dhumal’s camp, his son and party’s youth wing chief Anurag Thakur could be promoted, while Bhadhoi MP Virendra Singh could also be brought at the central level.
Uttarakhand, which failed to get its representative in the Modi government, is unlikely to get any other representative than Anil Baluni in Team Shah. Mr Baluni is one of the national spokespersons of the party.
Sources disclosed party wants more representations from the northeastern states and also West Bengal in Team Shah but the party faces a leadership crisis in these states.
The RSS have put in its man in the Union human resource development too. Smriti Irani’s solo run in the ministry came to an abrupt end with Prime Minister Narendra Modi bringing in two MoS former RSS pracharak Ram Shankar Katheria and Upendra Kushwaha. Ms Irani was incidentally conspicuous by her absence in the swearing-in ceremony on Sunday.
With the appointment of Mr Katheria, RSS finally seems to had its way to push their educational reform agenda in the HRD ministry. Mr Katheria is understood to be close to the ideological parent of the BJP, which has been rooting for large-scale reform in the educational sector.
His links with the RSS were established before being selected to represent Agra constituency in the 2009 LS polls and he is understood to have worked as a pracharak for over a decade.
Through this appointment the RSS hopes to oversee that historical figures from the organisation were not ignored in the school and college curriculum and that history books are not distorted to present only one “distorted perspective”.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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