The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BYJM) recently announced the names of its new office-bearers and executive committee members. And it seems that if youth wings of political parties are their nurseries of future leadership, then the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has planted a diverse set of seeds.
The new vice presidents of the youth wing of BJP are- Harsh Sanghvi, Madhukeshwar Desai, Rahul Kothari, Muruganandam, Aijaz Engineer, Ranjit Das and Pravin Datke.
Sourabh Chauhdary and Abhijaat Mishra are general secretaries of the BJYM. The team will also have eight secretaries.
According to The Hindu report, for the first time, the team of office-bearers at BJP’s youth wing reflects communal diversity. This can be proved by highlighting the appointment of Srinagar resident Aijaz Engineer as vice-president, Saikat Dutta Choudhurie from the Barak Valley in Assam as national secretary and for the first time in a quarter of a century, Anoop Antony Joseph from Alappuzha district of Kerala also as national secretary.
It seems tha the saffron party is trying to include as much diversity as possible as a part of a long-term plan.
Engineer is an unlikely recruit for the BJP. His association with the party goes back more than a decade, when as a student at Bharath University in Chennai, he first came into contact with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
Similarly, Anoop Antony Joseph (32) also has an apolitical family background, who believes that in Kerala, the BJP will follow the Goa model by identifying the problems of the Christian community in the State and keeping down polarising rhetoric. He has been associated with the BJP for 10 years and had been active in the party’s training programme for workers.
For remaining in power for a longer span of time, it seems that the BJP has taken seriously its slogan – ‘Sabka sath Sabka vikas’ and is working towards it.
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