Published Aug 17, 2026 | 4:23 PM ⚊ Updated Aug 17, 2026 | 5:26 PM
Prof. Tariq Mansoor from poll-bound Uttar Pradesh is the lone Muslim office-bearer in the new team.
Synopsis: The BJP has announced its new national office-bearers under president Nitin Nabin, retaining BL Santhosh and elevating Ram Madhav to national vice-president. Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya has been replaced as Yuva Morcha president, while Prof. Tariq Mansoor of Uttar Pradesh is the lone Muslim office-bearer in the new team. The team has seven office-bearers from five southern States, but none from Telangana and none of the Morcha chiefs is from the South.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday, 17 August, announced its new team of national office-bearers under Nitin Nabin, seven months after he replaced JP Nadda as the party’s national president.
The appointments, which take effect immediately, include 12 women. Former Union Minister Smriti Irani has been appointed national general secretary, while Ram Madhav, who previously served as the party’s national general secretary, has been elevated to national vice-president, despite remarks he made in April on India’s oil imports from Russia that put the NDA government at the Centre in an embarrassing situation.
BL Santhosh has been reappointed national general secretary (organisation), while Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal has been appointed national treasurer.
Prof. Tariq Mansoor from poll-bound Uttar Pradesh is the lone Muslim office-bearer in the new team.
Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya has been replaced as Yuva Morcha president by Dr Hemang Joshi. The development comes amid reports that Surya has been lobbying for a berth in the Union Cabinet.
The new team has seven office-bearers from five southern States: two each from Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, and one from Tamil Nadu. There is no representation from Telangana in the national team, while none of the new Morcha chiefs is from the South.
Heartiest congratulations and best wishes to all the newly appointed office bearers of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s National Team.
With a blend of experience and energy, this team will give new momentum to the organisation under the guidance of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri… pic.twitter.com/JaNKozwo4H
— Nitin Nabin (@NitinNabin) August 17, 2026
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The new national vice-presidents are Vasundhara Raje Scindia (Rajasthan), Tirath Singh Rawat (Uttarakhand), Ram Madhav (Delhi), Baijayant Jay Panda (Odisha), D Purandeshwari (Andhra Pradesh), Rekha Verma (Uttar Pradesh), Varshaben Narendrabhai Doshi (Gujarat), Bharti Pravin Pawar (Maharashtra), Manpreet Singh Badal (Punjab), Lal Singh Arya (Madhya Pradesh), M Nagaraja (Karnataka), Prof. Tariq Mansoor (Uttar Pradesh) and Madhuchandra Kar (West Bengal).
The national general secretaries are Vinod Tawde (Maharashtra), Sunil Bansal (Delhi), Biplab Kumar Deb (Tripura), Smriti Irani (Uttar Pradesh), Satish Poonia (Rajasthan), Gajendra Patel (Madhya Pradesh), Harish Dwivedi (Uttar Pradesh) and Sanjay Bhatia (Haryana).
Shivprakash (Mumbai) and Saudan Singh (Chandigarh) have been retained as national joint general secretaries (organisation).
The national secretaries are Kavita Patidar (Madhya Pradesh), K Surendran (Kerala), Bhola Singh (Uttar Pradesh), Pradip Varma (Jharkhand), Jagdish Ishwarbhai Patel (Gujarat), Sandeep Pathak (Delhi), Phangnon Konyak (Nagaland), Sangeeta Yadav (Uttar Pradesh), Anil Antony (Kerala), M Venkateshan (Tamil Nadu), Manoj Tigga (West Bengal), Siddharth Shambhu (Bihar), Swadesh Singh (Delhi), Mriganka Deo Barman (Assam), Rohan Gupta (Gujarat) and Jai Prakash (Delhi).
Rajesh Mangal (Rajasthan) has been appointed national joint treasurer. Tarun Chugh (Punjab) will be in charge of the central office, with Mahendra Pandey (Uttarakhand) as central office secretary.
Sambit Patra (Odisha) has been appointed North-East coordinator and Rajiv Babbar (Delhi) North-East joint coordinator. Vishnu Datt Sharma (Madhya Pradesh) will coordinate all party cells, assisted by Rituraj Sinha (Bihar) and Vishnu Vardhan Reddy (Andhra Pradesh) as joint coordinators.
Alongside Dr Hemang Joshi (Gujarat) heading the Yuva Morcha, Roop Kumari Choudhary (Chhattisgarh) will head the Mahila Morcha, Amarpal Maurya (Uttar Pradesh) the OBC Morcha, Bansilal Gurjar (Madhya Pradesh) the Kisan Morcha, Shivesh Kumar (Bihar) the SC Morcha, Mannalal Rawat (Rajasthan) the ST Morcha and Kunwar Basit Ali (Uttar Pradesh) the Minority Morcha.
Anil Baluni (Uttarakhand) has been appointed media convenor. Ashish Usha Agrawal (Madhya Pradesh), Pradeep Bhandari (Delhi) and Siddharth Yadav (Delhi) are the media co-convenors.
Deepak Mhaskey (Chhattisgarh) will be social media convenor, with Priti Gandhi (Maharashtra), Shivanand Dwivedi (Delhi), Alok Bhatt (Uttarakhand) and Arun Yadav (Haryana) as co-convenors.
