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After Bihar election win, East, South main focus in BJP restructuring

After Bihar elections, Nadda assigns states to prabharis and puts minders to oversee morchas

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Vijayvargiya oversees all-important West Bengal with Arvind Menon, a former RSS pracharak, and Amit Malviya, who helms the BJP’s information technology department, as his assistants

Radhika Ramaseshan
In the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) architecture, the organisation and its governments are equally positioned. One half is usually not allowed to dominate the other, although the structure was thrown off balance in Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s time, when the organisation called the shots where the coalition government was in trouble. Relations panned out more evenly under Prime Minister Narendra Modi because he is rooted in the organisation and recognised the futility of setting the government against the party. “Modi knows that his government draws political capital from the elections that are won. If the party is enfeebled, we can’t win.

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