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Munde, Khurana among seven BJP vice-presidents

Former Delhi chief minister Madan Lal Khurana has staged a comeback as vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

In the newly-constituted party organisation, announced in New Delhi on Monday by party senior vice-president K Jana Krishnamurthy, Muqhtar Abbas Naqvi has not been promoted from secretary to general secretary.

Gopinath Munde has become a central office-bearer. The former deputy chief minister of Maharashtra has been named one of seven vice-presidents. The other new faces in this category are parliamentarian Karia Munda and Pyarelal Khandelwal. Sangh Priya Gautam has been elevated to the post of vice-president from general secretary.

Of five general secretaries, three are new faces - Maya Singh, Sunil Shastry and Saheb Singh Verma, parliamentarian. M Venkaiah Naidu, parliamentarian and Narendra Modi continue in the same rank.

On whether the party was not going back on its word of not tolerating indiscipline within the party by inducting Khurana as vice-president, Krishnamurthy said the former was removed from his party post for ''some particular reasons''.

''No one continuously indulges in indiscipline. That chapter is over. We had not announced (at the time of removing Khurana from the post) that he will not be taken back as vice-president for all time to come,'' he said.

Krishnamurthy said K N Govindacharya requested that he be relieved as an office-bearer so that he could devote time for a two-year in-depth study on economic problems facing the country.

In deference to his wishes, Govindacharya had not been saddled with the general secretary's responsibility, he added.

Upcoming leaders Sushma Swaraj and Uma Bharati's reasons were similar.

''If someone is not made an office-bearer, it does not mean that they cease to be useful for the overall functioning of the party,'' he added.

Party president Bangaru Laxman will also constitute the new central election committee, parliamentary board and disciplinary committee after the first meeting of the new national executive soon.

Two posts of secretaries have been kept vacant. Of five, three are new-comers - Kshetrapal, parliamentarian, Kanta Nalavade, legislator (Maharashtra) and Dalpat Singh Paraste, parliamentarian (Madhya Pradesh). The other two secretaries are Naqvi and Padnabha Acharya, who are old hands.

V P Goyala continues to be its treasurer.

Krishnamurthy said as per the party constitution, there are four other backward classes, two women and five schedule caste/schedule tribe persons among the 21 office-bearers.

The president will constitute the morchas of the party later.

J P Mathur, who has been dropped as vice-president, figures in the list of 50 national executive members.

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