Rajagopal, Sobha out; Kummanam, Muraleedharan in BJP nationwide government committee
By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The BJP nationwide government committee reconstituted on Thursday has two members, two particular invitees and three everlasting invitees from Kerala. While V Muraleedharan and Kummanam Rajasekharan have been included within the nationwide government as members, P Ok Krishnadas and ‘Metroman’ E Sreedharan have been made particular ‘invitees’. O Rajagopal, Sobha Surendran and Alphons Kannanthanam have been dropped from the occasion’s nationwide decision-making physique.
National vice-president AP Abdullakutty and nationwide spokesperson Tom Vadakkan have been included as ‘permanent invitees’ of their capability as central office-bearers. State president Ok Surendran can be a ‘permanent invitee’ to the nationwide government together with different state unit chiefs.
The “downgrading” of Krishnadas from a member to a ‘special invitee’ and the exclusion of Sobha from the nationwide physique haven’t gone down effectively with their respective supporters. However, each leaders have determined to lie low in the intervening time because the Muraleedharan-Surendran camp holds sway within the state unit and likewise enjoys the backing of the nationwide management.
Kannanthanam welcomes nat’l physique reconstitution
T’Puram: Sobha’s continuance because the vice-president of the state unit even after the current occasion reorganisation had given sufficient indications that she will not be retained as a nationwide government member. There are indications that the state management vehemently opposed her inclusion within the nationwide physique and as an alternative backed Kummanam who had maintained a cordial relationship with the official faction even after his drubbing in Nemom.
Meanwhile, former Union Minister Alphons Kannanthanam welcomed the reconstitution of the nationwide physique. “I was a member of the national executive for 10 years. I think that is a long time and I believe younger people should come to the national executive,” he informed TNIE. The nationwide government committee has 80 members together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and 50 particular invitees.There are 179 everlasting invitees to the nationwide physique.
