Nitin Naveen became the national president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on 20 January 2026. His team has been announced almost 7 months after his appointment. His team includes the names of a total of 13 Vice Presidents, 8 National General Secretaries and 16 National Ministers. Six women have also been included among the 13 vice-presidents. Recently, Sandeep Pathak, who came from Aam Aadmi Party, has been made National Minister, a total of 8 leaders like Sunil Bansal, Vinod Tawde, Harish Dwivedi and Smriti Irani have been made National General Secretaries. BL Santosh has been retained as National General Secretary (Organization).
Along with Organization General Secretary BL Santosh, two co-General Secretaries will also work. This responsibility has been entrusted to Saudan Singh and Shivprakash. Saudan Singh, who hails from Chandigarh, was earlier the national vice president of BJP. In place of Tejashwi Surya, the responsibility of the post of President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha has now been handed over to Hemang Joshi.
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Now Union Minister Piyush Goyal has been made the National Treasurer in place of Rajesh Aggarwal. Rajesh Mangal will be the co-treasurer with him. Tarun Chugh has been made the national office in-charge and Mahendra Pandey has been made the national office minister.
Who became the vice president?
Former Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje Scindia, former Uttarakhand CM Tirath Singh Rawat, Ram Madhav, Baijayant Jai Panda, D Purandeshwari, Rekha Verma, Varshaben Narendrabhai Doshi, Bharti Praveen Pawar, Manpreet Singh Badal, Lal Singh Arya, M Nagraj, Tariq Mansoor and Madhuchandra Kar have been made national vice presidents. Of these, Rekha Verma, Baijayant Jai Panda, Tariq Mansoor and Vasundhara Raje are already the vice presidents of BJP.
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Many 'outsiders' in the list of national ministers
BJP has made a total of 16 leaders as national ministers. The names of many outside leaders are also included in this. Apart from Rohan Gupta and Anil Antony from Congress, Sandeep Pathak from AAP has also been made minister. Apart from these three, there are Kavita Patidar, K Surendran, Bhola Singh, Pradeep Verma, Jagdish Ishwarbhai Patel, Phangnon Konyak, Sangeeta Yadav, M Venkatesan, Manoj Tigga, Siddharth Shambhu, Swadesh Singh, Mriganka Dev Burman and Jai Prakash.
BJP has made Hemang Joshi the president of Yuva Morcha. Apart from this, Roop Kumari Chaudhary has been made the president of Mahila Morcha, Amarpal Maurya of OBC Morcha, Bansilal Gurjar of Kisan Morcha, Shivesh Kumar Ram of SC Morcha, Mannalal Rawat of ST Morcha and Kunwar Basit Ali of Minority Morcha.