Gadkari to name new team, focus on youth

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could announce its new team of office bearers on Tuesday with Lok Sabha MP Varun Gandhi may be appointed as national secretary.

Just three months ago the BJP was in deep trouble. Many leaders had questioned the way thing were going on in the party with senior leader Arun Shourie suggesting that the party follow the example of Mao Zedong, who had said at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution: "Bombard the headquarters."

Three months after the extreme prescription BJP had a new president in Nitin Gadkari.

Now Gadkari is all set to name a new set of office bearers. Gadkari is likely to focus on the youth to take on the Rahul Gandhi brigade.

BJP could unleash Varun Gandhi and Navjot Singh Sidhu as national secretaries to take on Jitin Prasada, Jyotiraditya Sindhia and Sachin Pilot.

"The youth of the country is its future," says Navjot Singh Sidhu.

Varun Gandhi, who rode to Lok Sabha making hate speeches in General Elections, was even being backed for leading the youth wing of BJP.

But a section led by former president Rajnath Singh did not agree and that post now will go to Anurag Thakur, son of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal.

Out of the 10 general secretaries important faces could be former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje, spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad, Thevar Chand Gehlot, Himachal Minister JP Nadda, Anant Kumar and Narendra Modi nominee Purshottam Rupala.

Perhaps for the first time since its inception, the BJP will see a complete demarcation of duties and responsibilities between the parliamentary party leadership and the office bearers looking after the organisation.

So leaders now heading various committees or leading the BJP in Parliament will remain out of organisational set up.

The moot question though remains whether Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi left out of the parliamentary board by former president Rajnath Singh will be a comeback to the most powerful decision making body of the BJP.

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