Ram Madhav, Smriti Irani, Biplab Deb in BJP's new national team; Piyush Goyal named treasurer

18/08/2026

NEW DELHI, Aug 17: The BJP on Monday overhauled its national team under party president Nitin Nabin, bringing in many new faces and some prominent leaders like former Union minister Smriti Irani as general secretary and former RSS functionary Ram Madhav as vice president.
The party, which said it has maintained the right balance between youth and experience, retained a few veterans including former chief minister of Rajasthan Vasundhara Raje Scindia, who was named as one of its 13 vice-presidents.
Out of the total 65 office bearers named on Monday in an expanded team, 51 are new. These include 12 women and six leaders from minority communities.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal has been named national treasurer, a post he held earlier also before becoming a minister in the first government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May 2014.
The BJP has retained B L Santhosh as National General Secretary (Organisation), a key post in the party.
The party removed Amit Malviya as its IT department head, replacing him with Deepak Mhaskey from Chhattisgarh, while Hemang Joshi from Gujarat has been named the party's Yuva Morcha president, replacing Lok Sabha MP Tejasvi Surya.
The reshuffle, which came over a decade after the last organisation rejig of this level in 2015 under the then party president Amit Shah, has again fuelled speculation of an imminent Cabinet reshuffle.
Several leaders have made a comeback in prominent roles after their political profiles ebbed. Among them are Irani, who was defeated in Amethi in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, and Ram Madhav who was dropped as a national general secretary when then BJP president J P Nadda constituted his team in September 2020.
The party has also brought in ex-Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb in its team of eight national general secretaries, out of which six are new, according to the list released by the party.
Six of the appointees are below 40 years, 15 are in the 40-49 years age group, and 21 are in the 50-59 years age group. Party sources stressed that the revamp was done keeping in mind the BJP's preparations for the assembly polls up to 2029 and the next general elections.
Incidentally, Piyush Goyal's father Ved Prakash Goyal, who served as a Union minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, had also served as the party's national treasurer for a long time.
Goyal, a Chartered Accountant by profession, is the only Union minister who has been brought into the party's new team announced today. Some other ministers, Harsh Malhotra and Pankaj Choudhary, have already been made state presidents.
The BJP retained party MP Anil Baluni as its national media convenor, and appointed three new media co-convenors to assist him. They are Ashish Usha Agrawal, Pradeep Bhandari and Siddharth Yadav.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the newly-appointed office bearers of the BJP and said the team brings together organisational experience, energy and grassroots connect.
BJP president Nitin Nabin said the team, with a blend of experience and energy, will give new momentum to the organisation under the guidance of Prime Minister Modi.
Lok Sabha MP and former Union minister D Purandeshwari as well as former Uttarakhand chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat are among the new vice presidents.
BJP MP and former president of the party's Rajasthan unit Satish Poonia, Lok Sabha MP Gajendra Patel, Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Bhatia and ex-MP Harish Dwivedi, who is currently in charge of the party's political affairs in Assam, are among the new faces in the list of general secretaries.
Vinod Tawde and Sunil Bansal are the only two national general secretaries that the BJP has retained in its new team.
The two leaders have been rewarded for their impressive organisational work, party sources said, noting Bansal's contribution in the BJP's victory in the West Bengal Assembly polls.
Tarun Chugh, a BJP Rajya Sabha MP, has been made the party's central office in-charge in place of Rajya Sabha MP Arun Singh.
The number of vice presidents in the new team has been increased to 13 from 11, out of which nine are new. The total number of national general secretaries has also been increased to eight from the previous seven. The BJP's new team has 16 national secretaries. There were 11 national secretaries in the previous team.
Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Baijayant Jay Panda, Rekha Verma and Tariq Mansoor have been retained as vice presidents.
Nabin has also replaced other national morcha presidents of the party.
Roop Kumari Choudhary from Chhattisgarh replaced Vanathi Srinivasan as BJP's Mahila Morcha president.
Amarpal Maurya from Uttar Pradesh was made OBC Morcha president, replacing Rajya Sabha MP K Laxman. Bansilal Gurjar from Madhya Pradesh has been made Kisan Morcha president. Shivesh Kumar Ram from Bihar was appointed as SC Morcha president.
Mannalal Rawat from Rajasthan was appointed as the new ST Morcha president. Kunwar Basit Ali from Uttar Pradesh was made BJP Minority Morcha president.
Varshaben Narendrabhai Doshi from Gujarat, Bharti Pravin Pawar from Maharashtra, Sardar Manpreet Singh Badal from Punjab, Lal Singh Arya from Madhya Pradesh, M Nagaraja from Karnataka and Madhuchandra Kar from West Bengal are among the new faces inducted in the new team of party vice presidents.
The BJP has brought in many new faces, including Kavita Patidar from Madhya Pradesh, K Surendran from Kerala, ex-AAP leader Sandeep Pathak from Delhi and Manoj Tigga from West Bengal, in its team of 16 national secretaries from different states.
The party said that to ensure that every major faith in India is respected and accommodated, the national office has given place to one Sikh member, two Christian members and one member each from Muslim, Jain and Parsi communities.
The earlier team had eight women members and four leaders from minority communities.
Former Aligarh Muslim University vice chancellor Prof Tariq Mansoor has been appointed national vice president. Kunwar Basit Ali has been appointed president of the Minority Morcha.
Anil Antony, the son of Congress veteran A K Antony, has been retained as a national secretary. Former Punjab finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal has been appointed BJP national vice-president.
The party said the new appointments ensure widespread representation, accommodating voices from 23 states and Union territories across the country.
"Such balanced appointments empower the incoming national president's executive team to operate with a profound awareness of the nation's vast geographical landscape and regional nuances," the BJP said in a statement.
The party highlighted that a special focus has been placed on the North-East region, which has been given distinct prominence through the appointment of three regional leaders from Tripura, Assam and Nagaland and the continuation of a dedicated North-East Coordination Cell, which will be headed by Sambit Patra.
Additionally, the Scheduled Castes (SC) are represented by three members from Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh.
Sanjay Mayukh, who was serving as national media co-convenor for the last several years, did not figure in the new team.
Priti Gandhi from Maharashtra, Shivanand Dwivedi from Delhi, Alok Bhatt from Uttarakhand and Arun Yadav from Haryana were made social media co-convenors in the BJP's new national team.
BJP MP Sambit Patra was retained as the party's north-east coordinator and Rajiv Babbar was appointed as joint coordinator.
The new faces among national secretaries include Bhola Singh from Uttar Pradesh, Pradip Varma from Jharkhand, M Venkateshan from Tamil Nadu and Swadesh Singh from Delhi.

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