Over a month after B.Y. Vijayendra was appointed as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief in Karnataka, the high command revamped the party organisation and approved a new list of office-bearers on Saturday.
Four-time MLA and prominent OBC face of the party V. Sunil Kumar, who was a contender for both the party president and the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly posts, has now been appointed as one of the four general secretaries, which is a crucial post in the party organisation. Mr. Kumar is known to be from the faction that had been opposed to B.S. Yediyurappa.
The other general secretaries are: Scheduled Castes (SC) leader, two-time MLA and former sub inspector of police P. Rajeev; former MLA from K.R. Puram, Bengaluru, N.S. Nandeesh Reddy (who seems to have lost out to Byrathi Basavaraj, now appointed as a vice-president), and former MLA J. Preetham Gowda, who took on the H.D. Deve Gowda family on their home turf in Hassan.
