BJP president J P Nadda on July 4 announced changes in the leadership of four State units of the party, triggering what is being seen as the start of a big recast in party’s organisation, and the Union Council of Ministers.
Babulal Marandi was appointed as the president of the Jharkhand unit of the BJP, Sunil Jakhar for Punjab and former general secretary of the BJP D Purandareswari as chief of the Andhra Pradesh unit of the party, and Union minister G Kishen Reddy as the Telangana unit president.
Through the day, several Union ministers, including earth sciences minister Kiren Rijiju, his successor in the law ministry Arjun Ram Meghwal and minister of state for health S P Singh Baghel, made a beeline to Mr Nadda’s office, in the BJP’s national headquarters in New Delhi, adding a frisson to the speculations about a large scale change in both the party and the government in the coming days.
