New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Saturday named as the new leader of the reconstituted BJP Parliamentary Party in both Houses of Parliament.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh will be the deputy leader of the party in the Lok Sabha and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Rajya Sabha.
Ministers of State for Parliamentary Affairs Santosh Gangwar and Prakash Javadekar will be the government’s deputy Chief Whips in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha respectively.
Lok Sabha member from Rajasthan Arjun Ram Meghwal will be the party’s Chief Whip in the Lok Sabha while Rajya Sabha member from Punjab Avinash Rai Khanna will be the new party chief whip in the Upper House.
The 13 whips named by BJP in the Lok Sabha are: Suresh Angadi (Karnataka), Sanjay Dhotre (Maharashtra), Sanjay Jaiswal (Bihar), Sunil Singh (Jharkhand), Ratan Lal Katariya (Haryana), Parvesh Verma (Delhi), Kirit Solanki (Gujarat),
Rakesh Singh (Madhya Pradesh), Kamla Patle (Chhattisgarh), Om Birla (Rajasthan), Mahendra Pandey, Ramshankar Karhuriya and Pankaj Choudhary (all Uttar Pradesh).
