Breaking News Live Updates: MHA panel to draft Darjeeling pact after Amit Shah meets Gorkha

The team comprises 65 office-bearers, including 51 new faces. Among the key appointments, former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia and former RSS functionary Ram Madhav have been named national vice presidents.

Former Union minister Smriti Irani has been appointed one of the party's eight national general secretaries. B L Santhosh has been retained as national general secretary (organisation), while Vinod Tawde and Sunil Bansal have also retained their positions as general secretaries.

What Happened

The general secretary team also includes Biplab Kumar Deb, Gajendra Patel, Satish Poonia, Harish Dwivedi and Sanjay Bhatia. The new team includes 12 women and six leaders from minority communities.

• He had held the post before becoming a minister in the first Narendra Modi government in May 2014.

• The organisational reshuffle is the BJP's first of this scale since 2015, when Amit Shah was party president.

• A special NIA court in Jammu has rejected the bail plea of Insha Jan, an accused in the 2019 Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF personnel.

Key Details

Union minister Piyush Goyal has once again been appointed the BJP's national treasurer. The party has also appointed RS MP Tarun Chugh as central office in-charge.

• Under the pact, "IOC will supply the entire import requirement of Mauritius of motor spirit (petrol), high speed diesel (diesel) and aviation turbine fuel (ATF)."

• This, it said, was the first long-term supply agreement concluded by an Indian public-sector oil marketing company outside South Asia in recent years.

• The long-term sales and purchase agreement between IOC and Mauritius' State Trading Corporation is designed to provide Mauritius with assured supplies and reduce its exposure to price volatility, an official statement said.

Why It Matters

Hemang Joshi of Gujarat has been named Yuva Morcha president, while Roop Kumari Choudhary of Chhattisgarh will oversee the Mahila Morcha. BJP MP Anil Baluni will continue as media convenor, with Ashish Usha Agrawal, Pradeep Bhandari and Siddharth Yadav appointed as co-convenors.

• The agreement was exchanged during Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri's official visit to Mauritius on August 20-21, alongside a government-to-government memorandum of understanding (MoU) to expand cooperation in oil and gas, including petroleum product.

• He warned that negligence or failure to perform duties would lead to accountability and action against the responsible officers or employees.

What Reports Say

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• Continued reporting by The Times of India as more details emerge