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Gadkari goes for 234-strong jumbo national executive

Body has only 12 members but also count 77 permanent invitees and 36 special invitees

GN Bureau | March 16, 2010

BJP president Nitin Gadkari

The new national executive of the Bhartiya Janata Party announced here on Tuesday by its president Nitin Gadkari has only 121 members, including 40 office-bearers, but for all practical purposes it has the jumbo strength of 234 because of the list of another 77 permanent invitees and 36 special invitees.

The national executive includes RSS ideologue and former Organiser editor Sheshadri Chari, expelled union minister Jaswant Singh's journalist-turned-politician son Manvendra Singh, Arun Shourie, Mahesh Jethmalani of Mumbai, LK Advani's favourite journalists Balbir Punj and Chandan Mitra and Maneka Gandhi.

Besides the office-bearers, other members on the executive are:

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, LK Advani, Bangaru Laxman, M Venkaiah Naidu, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Bal Apte, Yashwant Sinha, Gopinath Munde, SS Ahaluwalia, Arun Shourie, Balbir Punj, Chandan Mitra, Mridula Sinha, Shatrughan Sinha, Kaptan Singh Solanki, Sumitra Mahajan, Jayavantiben Mehta, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, Sheshadri Chari, Anita Arya, Dr CP Thakur, Dilip Singh Judeo, Sudha Yadav, Ramtahal Chaudhari, Maneka Gandhi, Yogi Adityanath, Lalji Tandon, Hukumdev Narayan Yadav, Dr JK Jain, Dr. Anil Jain, Arun Singh, Nalin Kohli, Jayprakash Agrawal (Surya), Punam Azad, Rekha Gupta, Pinki Anand, Hari Babu, Shanta Reddy, Sukhada Pande, Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, Balubhai Shukla, Omprakash Dhankad, Vinod Khanna, Kiran Kher, Arjun Meghwal, Subhash Mehriya, Suman Shringi, Manavendra Singh, Omkarsingh Lakhawat, H Raja, Lalitha Kumar Mangalam, MT Ramesh, CH Vijayshankar, Gouri Chaoudhari, Bijoy Mahapatra, Surama Padhi, Shobhatai Phadanvis, Mahesh Jethamalani, Shaina NC, Manisha Chaudhari, Nana Shamkule, Kanta Nalavade, Louis Marandi, Sunil Singh, Faggansingh Kulaste, Virendra Kumar Khatik, Nirmala Bhuriya, Satpal Malik, Dr Vijay Sonkar Shastri, Manoj Sinha, Sarla Singh, Rambux Verma, Hukum Singh, Sudhanshu Trivedi, Sadhvi Niranjana Jyoti, Ajay Tamta, Shanti Mehra and Ranjana Sahi.

The permanent invitees' list includes six chief ministers, two deputy chief ministers, eight former chief ministers, three former governors, 14 legislature leaders, two chief whips in parliament, parliamentary party secretary and joint secretary and 40 others who include Ramdas Agarwal (outgoing treasurer), O Rajgopal, former union minister Satyanarayan Jatiya (Madhya Pradesh), Devdeas Apte (Bapu Apte), Vidyasagar Rao (Andhra), Bandaru Dattatreya, Satyapal Jain, former union minister Shripad Naik (Goa), Vinod Tawde, Om Prakash Kohli and Jagdish Mukhi.

The special invitees include former Delhi Lt governor Vijay Kapoor, Jagdish Shettigar, Arun Sathe, Anandiben Patel (Gujarat minister), Amit Shah (Mumbai spokesman), Banwarilal Purohit (Nagpur), Col Bainsala (Rajasthan), Suvarn Saleriya, Siddharthanath Singh, Rajesh Shah and Amitabh Sinha.

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