Where from Nitin Nabin 'discover' organisational talent in Biplap Deb is a mystery :::: No mega surprise in Team Nabin ::: Stale headlines everywhere about Ram Madhav's return .. but only as a vice President ::: Even as general secretaries - two old names Biplab Kumar Deb and Smriti Irani

The BJP rejig is hardly a message for rebuilding the party for next 10 years of so.

The Big Picture message is Amit Shah will keep running the show and Nitin Nabin may continue to be a lacklustre and rubber stamp party president. 

State headlines tell the tale - Smriti Irani, Ram Madhav make a comeback in Nitin Nabin's Team 2026  

A notable omission from Nabin’s new team is Amit Malviya, BJP IT-handler and in-charge in social media operations. 

He has been replaced by Deepak Mhaskey as national social media convenor, with Priti Gandhi, Shivanand Dwivedi, Alok Bhatt and Arun Yadav appointed co-convenors.

Arun Singh is a big name dropped.

The market spin could be - the new BJP team blends the old and the new and features women in key roles as the party prepares for elections in five states in the coming months.  Union Minister Piyush Goyal made new Treasurer. It is such a role - away from active politics - of bookkeeping; that he may not have to resign as Union Commerce Minister. 

Goyal is still in the thick of trade talks with the US; and he may continue that assignment.  

Biplab Kumar Deb, who was shunted out of  Tripura for administrative and political liabilities in 2022 as the Chief Minister, has been made a general secretary. Where from Nitin Nabin 'discover' the organisational talent in Biplap is a mystery. 

Smriti Irani is the new general secretary and that's like a consolation prize. She is a glib talker and had successfully unseated Rahul Gandhi in Amethi in 2019; but BJP general secretaries need much more than that.

National vice presidents

Vasundhara Raje Scindia — Rajasthan

Tirath Singh Rawat — Uttarakhand

Ram Madhav — Delhi

Baijayant Jay Panda — Odisha

D Purandeswari — Andhra Pradesh

Rekha Verma — Uttar Pradesh

Varshaben Narendrabhai Doshi — Gujarat

Bharti Pravin Pawar — Maharashtra

Manpreet Singh Badal — Punjab

Lal Singh Arya — Madhya Pradesh

M Nagaraja — Karnataka

Tariq Mansoor — Uttar Pradesh

Madhuchandra Kar — West Bengal

In BJP's scheme of things, Vice Presidents do not matter much in organisational matters. 

Hence, Ram Madhav's return as a national vice president would not be like the previous term as general secretary - when he practically ran the show in the north east and also largely in Jammu and Kashmir for few months during coalition period with the PDF. 

Subsequently, his wings were clipped in Kashmir matters and his full-steam power had helped return of Neiphiu Rio as the Nagaland chief minister. 

How much BJP has grown in Nagaland since then is a question better not asked !! 

The BJP office bearers have lost all powers and political dynamism to question the chief minister and his repeated faulty statements and policies. 

Latest one is around Rio's Independence Day claim that a panel has been formed by Centre on Naga talks. 

The mystery is nobody has heard of the panel and Rio may have to announce the composition of the same. 

How much Ram Madhav's return will help Rio as 2028 polls in the state are not far away is again a question best left in the womb of time.    

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Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Baijayant Jay Panda, Rekha Verma and Tariq Mansoor have retained their positions as national vice presidents. 

Vinod Tawde and Sunil Bansal will continue as national general secretaries.

B L Santhosh remains national general secretary (organisation) and he official link between the party and the RSS.

Kerala-based leader Anil Antony has been retained as national secretary. 

Anil Baluni will continue in a key national media role.   

A few prominent leaders from the previous team have also failed to find a place in the BJP’s new national line-up. 

They include Dushyant Gautam, 

Radha Mohan Das Agrawal, Sanjay Mayukh, 

Saroj Pandey, Tejasvi Surya, Laxmikant Bajpai.  

National secretaries

Kavita Patidar — Madhya Pradesh

K Surendran — Kerala

Bhola Singh — Uttar Pradesh

Pradip Varma — Jharkhand

Jagdish Ishwarbhai Patel — Gujarat

Sandeep Pathak — Delhi

Phangnon Konyak — Nagaland

Sangeeta Yadav — Uttar Pradesh

Anil Antony — Kerala

M Venkateshan — Tamil Nadu

Manoj Tigga — West Bengal

Siddharth Shambhu — Bihar

Swadesh Singh — Delhi

Mriganka Deo Barman — Assam

Rohan Gupta — Gujarat

Jai Prakash — Delhi

Morcha Presidents

Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha: Hemang Joshi — Gujarat

BJP Mahila Morcha: Roop Kumari Choudhary — Chhattisgarh

BJP OBC Morcha: Amarpal Maurya — Uttar Pradesh

BJP Kisan Morcha: Bansilal Gurjar — Madhya Pradesh

BJP SC Morcha: Shivesh Kumar Ram — Bihar

BJP ST Morcha: Mannalal Rawat — Rajasthan

BJP Minority Morcha: Kunwar Basit Ali — Uttar Pradesh

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