Sunil Bansal gets charge of WB, Odisha and Telangana Units

New Delhi, Aug 11: The BJP on Wednesday appointed Sunil Bansal, who played a key role in the party’s victories in Uttar Pradesh since 2014, as national secretary in charge of West Bengal, Odisha, and Telangana — three Opposition-governed states the party is paying special focus on for 2024.

 

 

 

Bansal, general secretary (organization) in UP since 2014, will be replaced by Dharampal, who has been the party’s secretary (organization) in Jharkhand, according to a statement by BJP general secretary Arun Singh.

 

 

 

Incidentally, both Dharampal and Bansal have ABVP backgrounds. Belonging to the Bijnor district of western UP, Dharampal joined the Sangh’s students’ front in 1990 as a full-time worker and was ABVP joint zonal organization secretary for UP and Uttarakhand. The party stated that Karamveer had been appointed as BJP’s Jharkhand unit general secretary. He was BJP joint-general secretary (organization) in UP earlier. In West Bengal, Bansal replaced Kailash Vijayvargiya as BJP general secretary in charge of the state — he replaced Tarun Chugh in Telangana and D Purandeswari in Odisha.

 

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Born in Rajasthan, Bansal, 52, has been with RSS since his student days. He was handpicked by Home Minister Amit Shah while preparing the 2014 Lok Sabha poll strategy for UP. Before that, Bansal was an RSS pracharak. Known to be close to Shah, his elevation to BJP is expected to make him a significant power center in the organization.