Bandi picks new faces, ignores most seniors

State BJP chief inducts people from all castes and communities in panel

Telangana state BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar has picked many new faces while retaining a few senior leaders in the state committee announced on Sunday. The list was announced after Sanjay got the seal of approval from the party high command.

All general secretaries and heads of the party’s morchas are new faces, and have not held any post in the party before. Senior leaders have been retained as vice-presidents. The shape of the new committee makes clear that the BJP is ready to take on the TRS. All major castes and communities have been represented in the panel.

The committee has 23 office-bearers, eight state morcha presidents, eight secretaries, four general secretaries, two treasurers and an office secretary.

Six former MLAs and two senior leaders were appointed vice presidents: Dr G. Vijaya Rama Rao, Chithala Ramachandra Reddy, Sankineni

Venkateswara Rao, Yendala Laxmi Narayana, N.V.S.S. Prabhakar, Yennam Srinivas Reddy,

G. Manohar Reddy and Bandaru Shobha Rani.

G. Premender Reddy, Dugyala Pradeep Kumar and Kumari Bangaru Shruthi were appointed general secretaries and Manthri Srinivasulu as the organising secretary.

Bhanu Prakash was appointed head of the Yuva Morcha, K. Geetha Murthy of the Mahila Morcha and Kondapally Sridhar Reddy was made Kisan Morcha president. Koppu Bhasha will head the SC Morcha,

Hussain Nayak the ST Morcha, A. Bhaskar the OBC Morcha and Afsar Pasha the minority morcha. Sanjay appointed K. Krishna Sagar Rao, P. Rajani Kumari and Rakesh Reddy as spokespersons.

The secretaries are: Raghunandan Rao, Prakash Reddy, M. Srinivas Reddy, Bomma Jaya Sree, Palle Ganga Reddy, Kunja Satyavathi, K. Madhava and G. Uma Rani. B. Shanthi Kumar and Bavarlal Varma were named treasurers.