Bawankule among 5 Gen Secys in BJP Maharashtra executive

   Dr SanjayKute            Chandrashekhar Bawankule     Adv Dharmapal Meshram      Archana Dehankar

 

 

 

The State executive of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced on Friday has several prominent names from Nagpur in particular and Vidarbha in general. Chandrashekhar Bawankule, former Energy Minister of Maharashtra, has been appointed as one of the five General Secretaries of the party in Maharashtra.

 

Dr Sanjay Kute, former Minister, has been appointed as State Vice-President. He is among 12 Vice-Presidents. He hails from Buldhana. The executive has two out of total 12 Secretaries from Nagpur. They are Adv Dharmapal Meshram, Chairman of Law Committee of Nagpur Municipal Corporation; and Archana Dehankar, former Mayor of Nagpur. Vishwas Pathak is Media In-charge for the State.

 

Along with the announcement of State Executive Committee, BJP has also declared appointments of District Presidents of Chandrapur city and rural, Bhandara, and Gondia. Pradeep Padole has been appointed as Bhandara district chief; Keshavrao Mankar (Gondia), Deorao Bhongale (Chandrapur Rural), and Dr Mangesh Gulwade (Chandrapur City).

 

Some of the prominent faces from Nagpur, Amravati, and Yavatmal districts of Vidarbha region have been appointed as Conveners of different cells or in other capacities in the State executive. From Yavatmal, Dr Ashok Uikey, former Minister of State, has been named President of ST Cell. Dr Anil Bonde, former Agriculture Minister, who hails from Amravati, has been named President of Kisan Morcha. From Nagpur, Sanjay Bhende has been named as Convener of Co-operatives Cell; Dr Kalpana Pande as Convener of Teachers’ Cell; Milind Kanade as Convener of

Economy Cell; Shyam Chandekar as Convener of Weavers’ Cell; and Jaisingh Chavan as Convener of Divyang Cell. Sanjay Fanje has been appointed as State Office Joint Secretary.

 

State Executive Committee members from Vidarbha include Dr Ramdas Ambatkar, Prof Anil Sole, Nanda Jichkar, Dr Milind Mane, Dr Rajiv Potdar (all from Nagpur); Rachana Gahane (Gondia); Renuka Dudhe, Harish Sharma, Khushal Bonde (Chandrapur); Sandhya Tikle, Kiran Mahalle, Jayant Dehankar (Amravati); Madhuri Badole and Tejrao Thorat (Akola), Baburao Kohale (Gadchiroli), Rajendra Dange and Rajendra Najardhane (Yavatmal), Hemant Patle and Rekha Bhajipale (Bhandara),

 

The invited members of State Executive Committee from Vidarbha include Sudhakar Deshmukh, Sudhakar Kohale, Nana Shamkule, Shrikant Deshpande, Arvind Shahapurkar, Ramesh Mankar, Mallikarjun Reddy, Rajiv Hadap, Sudhir Parwe, and Omprakash alias Munna Yadav (all from Nagpur); Dr Sunil Deshmukh, Dr Shirish Deshpande, Ramesh Bundile, Prabhudas Bhilavekar, Dr Nitin Dhande, Arun Adsad, Jagadish Gupta (Amravati); Adv Motisingh Mohta, Narayan Gawhankar, Ashok Olambe, Dr Jagannath Dhone, Kishor Mangte Patil, Madhukar Kamble (Akola), Vijay Kothari, Totaram Kayande, Dhrupadrao Sawale (Buldhana), Annasaheb Parwekar, Uttamrao Ingle, Ramu Pawar, Rajabhau Thakare (Yavatmal); Ramesh Kuthe, Netram Katre, Shishupal Patle, Khemeshwar Rahangdale (Gondia); Atul Deshkar, Vijay Raut, Sanjay Dhote, Jainuddin Zaveri, Rajendra Gandhi, Kader Sheikh, Chandansingh Chandel (Chandrapur); Tariq Quereshi, Ramchandra Awsare (Bhandara); Vijay Jadhav (Washim); Arvind Porettiwar (Gadchiroli); and Vijay Mude and Suresh Waghmare (Wardha).

 

Senior leaders Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways; Devendra Fadnavis, former Chief Minister and currently Leader of Opposition in Legislative Assembly; Sanjay Dhotre, Union Minister of State for Telecommunications; Dr Parinay Fukey, MLC and former Minister of State; Sudhir Mungantiwar, former Finance Minister, and Hansraj Ahir, former Union Minister of State from Chandrapur; Ranjit Patil, MLC and former Minister of State from Akola; Pravin Potey, MLC and former Minister of State from Amravati; senior leader Datta Meghe from Nagpur; Chainsukh Sancheti from Buldhana; Ambarish Raje Atram from Gadchiroli, Shobhatai Fadnavis from Chandrapur; Gopal Agrawal from Gondia; Maya Iwnate, former Mayor of Nagpur; Madan Yerawar from Yavatmal, have been named as Special Invitees to the State executive.