The BJP is likely to announce its new team soon. With the deliberations on the composition of the new team almost complete, only final approval is due. It will be granted only when the senior leadership gives a go-ahead, sources say.
The BJP state committee was reconstituted on Friday. Senior leaders Shobha Surendran and M T Ramesh were appointed as the new General Secretaries of the BJP Kerala unit led by Rajeev Chandrasekhar. Anoop Antony Joseph and S Suresh are the other General Secretaries.
While replacement of Bandi Sanjay Kumar as party’s Telangana president was expected in the wake of dissent in the ranks against him, D Purandeswari’s appointment as AP unit chief came as a surprise as it sealed the fate of a BJP-TDP alliance.
‘I have to step aside because a Trinamool Congress leader is coming - there can be nothing more unfortunate than this reward for serving the BJP since birth,’ he said.
