Days after tasting the bitter truth that removal of Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay as the State unit chief did not go down well with the party cadres, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s central leadership began ‘damage control’ exercise by elevating him as the national general secretary.
Mr. Bandi will be the only south Indian BJP leader among the eight General Secretaries while another senior leader D.K. Aruna has been retained as the Vice President. The BJP leadership on Saturday announced new office bearers at the national level.
Sources said the party leadership had not expected the serious backlash in the aftermath of replacing Mr. Bandi and making Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy as the President and elevating Huzurabad MLA Eatala Rajender as the party’s Election Campaign Committee Chairman.
