Lucknow, Oct 26 The Uttar Pradesh BJP on Monday announced members of the state working committee ahead of the panel’s two-day meeting starting October 30 in Lucknow, the party said.
The party has invited Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP chief Nitin Nabin for the state working committee meeting.
The announcement of 712 members of the BJP state working committee is important as the party is expected to ready the blueprint for the 2027 UP polls, due in the next few months, in the presence of senior leaders.
“The state working committee has been announced. We have invited Union Home Minister Amit Shah ji and BJP chief Nitin Nabin ji for the meeting proposed (to be held) from October 30,” a party leader told PTI.
According to the list announced by the UP BJP, there are 30 permanent invitees and 134 special invitees to the state working committee of the UP BJP.
Apart from this, names of 548 members of the committee were also announced on Monday, the party said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who represents Varanasi in the Lok Sabha and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the Lok Sabha MP from Lucknow, are among the 30 permanent invitees of the UP BJP’s state working committee, according to the list released by the party.
Other prominent permanent invitees are party veteran and nonagenarian Murli Manohar Joshi, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Deputy Chief Ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, party MLC and former vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University Tariq Mansoor.
The other permanent invitees are former Union minister and national general secretary Smriti Irani, Harish Dwivedi (national general secretary), Mahendra Nath Pandey (former UP BJP chief), Union ministers Hardeep Singh, B L Verma and Kirti Vardhan Singh.
Vinay Katiyar (former UP BJP chief), Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti (chairman of National Backward Castes Commission) and former Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi have also been named among the 30 permanent invitees of the state working committee of the UP BJP.
Arun Singh (former national general secretary) and Radha Mohan Das Agarwal (former national general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP) have been named as special invitees to the state working committee. A number of UP ministers have also been named as special invitees.
Former Union minister Sanjeev Baliyan is among the 548 members of the state working committee, the party said.
(PTI News)
