Varun Gandhi finds no place in Amit Shah's team.
- 5 years ago
BJP president Amit Shah unveiled his team, over 60% of which is under 50, but kept out 34-year-old Varun Gandhi who was party general secretary.
BJP leaders says Mr Gandhi, who was appointed General Secretary only last year, has been dropped in keeping with BJP's rule that only one member of a family will hold a post in the party or the government it leads at the Centre. Varun's mother Maneka Gandhi is a minister in Mr Modi's cabinet.
Party sources, however, say there is more to the removal of Varun, who has seemed to cross the party line several times.
Earlier this year, he said Mr Modi's first election rally in Kolkata for the national elections was a success, but only 50,000 people attended. The comment left the party red-faced; a day before, the BJP had claimed that two lakh people attended the rally.
In another awkward moment last year, amid talks that the BJP would name Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate, Varun Gandhi said then party president Rajnath Singh was "fit for the top job". He likened Rajnath Singh to the BJP's first prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the party's gold standard for leadership.
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BJP leaders says Mr Gandhi, who was appointed General Secretary only last year, has been dropped in keeping with BJP's rule that only one member of a family will hold a post in the party or the government it leads at the Centre. Varun's mother Maneka Gandhi is a minister in Mr Modi's cabinet.
Party sources, however, say there is more to the removal of Varun, who has seemed to cross the party line several times.
Earlier this year, he said Mr Modi's first election rally in Kolkata for the national elections was a success, but only 50,000 people attended. The comment left the party red-faced; a day before, the BJP had claimed that two lakh people attended the rally.
In another awkward moment last year, amid talks that the BJP would name Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate, Varun Gandhi said then party president Rajnath Singh was "fit for the top job". He likened Rajnath Singh to the BJP's first prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the party's gold standard for leadership.
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