NEW DELHI: BJP president JP Nadda reconstituted the party’s highest decision-making body Parliamentary Board and the Central Election Committee (CEC) on Wednesday. While the exclusion of Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari and Madhya Pradesh chief minister (CM) Shivraj Singh Chouhan and non-inclusion of Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath caught most of the attention, the fact that there is neither any CM in the Parliamentary Board nor any Muslim face in the CEC got widely unnoticed.
Narendra Modi as Gujarat CM was in the Parliamentary Board along with Chouhan for a long time before the former became prime minister in 2014. Both of them were considered close to the party’s ideological compass Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). After Modi’s elevation, Chouhan continued to be a member of the board, which has a maximum of 11 members.
