Date:17/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/17/stories/2008071753860400.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

BJP appoints six women office-bearers

Special Correspondent

BANGALORE: The Bharatiya Janata Party restructured its team of office-bearers late on Tuesday night. The highlight of the new team is that six women members have been included in the list. The party has kept its promise of providing 33 per cent reservation to women in its organisational posts. Senior leader from Belgaum, Prabhakar Kore, who recently joined the party from the Congress, has been appointed vice-president.

While D.V. Sadanada Gowda will continue as president, some of the Ministers, who were also holding party organisational posts, have been taken off from the party responsibility.

The new team is as follows: D.V. Sadananda Gowda (president); Prabhakar Kore, G.M. Siddeshwara, C.H. Vijayashankar, M. Srinivas, E. Ashwathnarayan, Anwar Manpadi, Managala Devi Biradar and Poornima Prakash (vice-presidents); Pralhad Joshi, C.T. Ravi, Sashil Namoshi and Mangala Sridhar (general secretaries); Santosh (organising general secretary); S. Kailash, M.B. Bhanuprakash, Raghunath Rao Malkapure, Nirmal Kumar Surana, C. Ramesh, Dr. Veerbasant Reddy Mudnal, Reena Prakash, Sulochana Bhat and Padmavathi Yadav (secretaries); Lehar Singh (treasurer) and C.T. Ravi (spokesperson).