In addition to high-level officials including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Minister of Defense Rajnat Singh, and Federal Minister of the Interior Amit Shah, the state administration also includes party veterans LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi as a member.

On Thursday, the People’s Party formed a new National Executive Committee consisting of 80 members, and removed at least two prominent leaders-Party Member Valen Gandhi and former Federal Minister Chowdhury Billund Sim Grid, both of them are critical of the new agricultural law. In addition to high-level officials including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Minister of Defense Rajnat Singh, and Federal Minister of the Interior Amit Shah, the state administration also includes party veterans LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi as a member. Birender Singh expressed support to excited farmers, and Varun Gandhi has written to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath requesting that a murder be registered In the case, these people were involved in the death of four farmers in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident. Gandhi’s mother and former Federal Minister Maneka Gandhi were also removed from the new committee.

On Thursday, party member Gandhi from Pilibhit posted a video from Lakhimpur Kheri on Twitter-three SUVs rushing to a group of protesting farmers-and called for “responsibility for the innocent blood of farmers.” “The video is very clear. Murder cannot be used to silence the protesters. The innocent peasants must be held responsible for the bloodshed, and justice must be done before arrogant and cruel messages enter the minds of every peasant,” Gandhi wrote on Twitter.

Gandhi had earlier sought relief measures for farmers protesting against the three new laws, and he also opposed some BJP leaders linking the protesters to Khalistanis. In addition to the 80 full members, the executive committee will have 50 special invitations and 179 permanent invitations. The 179 permanent invitees include the chief minister of the People’s Party, the chairman and secretary-general of state units, and other state officials. By the way, 37 of the 80 committee members are federal ministers, in addition to some ministers from states ruled by the People’s Party.

This leaves less room for members who do not have any administrative positions to become part of the BJP’s deliberative mechanism.

News Source : The Indian Express