NEW DELHI: When BJP chief Rajnath Singh finally announced his new team of office bearers on Sunday after two months of mulling over it and losing crucial time in an election year, an irony in the process could not be overlooked. Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was dropped from BJP's parliamentary board, the panel that takes the crucial decisions for the party at the national level, by Singh in his earlier tenure as party chief in 2007, and on Sunday Modi returned to high table headed by the same party chief.
Modi's return to the highest decision making bodies in the party - the parliamentary board and hence the central election committee - is the high point in Sunday's reshuffle. That the Gujarat chief minister will matter in every way as BJP shapes up its election year activity leading to the 2014 parliamentary polls, is clear also with the entry of controversial former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah to Rajnath Singh's team of general secretaries. This is a clear indicator that Modi, who insisted on his man, Shah, to be part of the core central team, will take centrestage in planning BJP's strategy in the election year.
While Team Rajnath is also conspicuous by the absence of any women in the key team of general secretaries for the first time in many years, the differences between the top rung leaders in BJP are also reflected in it. Though it is not unusual for differing views to emerge on who should get the party posts, the fact compromises have had to be made, instead of forming a "dream team" that could spearhead the main Opposition party towards victory in 2014, could make BJP's already difficult uphill task a little more complicated.
If 33-years old Varun Gandhi adds to the youth appeal in the team and could lift BJP's prosects in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, the inclusion of Uma Bharti as a vice president is expected to bring in some mass appeal for the party. Apart from a a handful of fresh and energetic inductions, the overall team lacks the luster that it needs to take on rival Congress in the Lok Sabha polls. Many of the names clearly reflect the pulls and pressures that came from different lobbies in the party to have their people in, rather than collective decision to create the dynamics needed at this juncture.
While Ananth Kumar, Thawar Chand Gehlot, J P Nadda Dharmendra Pradhan retained positions in the team of general secretaries, Shah, Gandhi, Tapir Gao, Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Murlidhar Rao are the new entrants. Ramlal will continue as the gegeral secretary (organization) as the formal nominee of RSS in the team to coordinate with the Sangh.
Among the vice presidents, M A Naqvi, is among the prominent ones to retain his position and the new entrants include some BJP seniors like S S Ahluwalia, who the party failed to get renominated to the Rajya Sabha, C P Thakur, former Bihar party president, Prabhat Jha former Madhya Pradesh party chief, Jual Orao from Orissa among others. Perhaps to compensate for leaving out women in the team of general secretaries, five of them have been included in the category. Apart from Uma Bharti, Rajya Sabha MP Smriti Irani, who headed the Mahila Morch has been inducted as a vice president. The other three are Kiren Maheshwari frim rajasthan, Laxmikanta Chawla from Punjab and Bijaya Chakravarty from Assam.
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