With Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanting “Jan netas” and “credible faces” to represent their respective states in the BJP’s national executive, the party leadership is apparently finding it hard to meet the criteria.
The BJP is yet to announce its much awaited reconstituted national executive, even though Amit Shah was re-elected as the BJP president in January this year. Other than the national executive, Mr Shah has to announce the new team of the party’s national office bearers.
Sources disclosed that both RSS and Mr Modi want “credible faces” to represent their states in the reconstituted national team. Instead of state leaders from a “certain camp” or those “close to certain senior leader or leaders”, Mr Modi wants to give prominence to leaders who can deliver and can discharge effective leadership in the national executive and have a mass base, sources said.
Even RSS had stressed on this issue on various occasions to the BJP top brass. Factionalism in state units is always a worry for the BJP leadership and the party often has to face criticism over leadership crisis in its state units.
The party top brass also want “younger faces” to be given preference and more responsibilities in the national team. Though the list of names from states had reached Mr Shah some time back but the BJP president, it was learnt, was not satisfied with most of the names. Also, the leadership is finding it hard to “accommodate” most of the existing national executive members, which it wants to “replace” with “credible faces” elsewhere.
Sources said most of these existing members are senior state leaders and the party leadership is in two minds whether or not to “upset” them. Speculation is rife that the new national executive could see a major overhaul if the BJP top brass really decides to go with the Prime Minister and RSS’s advice, else only few new faces would be included in the new national executive.
