No first anniversary gala for Modi Sarkar 2

May 18, 2020 15:15

The Bharatiya Janata Party has shelved whatever plans it had to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi winning a second term, on May 30, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

However, BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda is expected to issue a commemorative statement on the occasion.

Nadda, who succeeded Amit Shah as working president after the 2019 elections and became full time party chief this January, is also giving the final touches to his new team of general secretaries.

But more interesting will be his choice of members of the BJP's central parliamentary board, the party's highest decision-making body.

Speculation is rife that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on a high after delivering Modi's economic stimulus package, will be inducted into the CPB, both to present her as a face for the southern states as well as to fill the slot left by M Venkaiah Naidu following his elevation as India's vice president.

Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis making the cut from the national executive to the CPB will depend on his Nagpur rival and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari agreeing to it, say sources.

Home Minister Amit Shah drove to the BJP headquarters last week and spent three hours with senior leaders to finalise the various berths in the BJP organisation.

The names should be out soon, say insiders.

-- R Rajagopalan in New Delhi

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