Amid preparations for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Samajwadi Party (SP) declared a 182-member state executive unit on Sunday, which was dissolved after the 2022 assembly elections by party president Akhilesh Yadav. The party shared the list of this executive team on its official Twitter handle, with Naresh Uttam Patel appointed as the chairman.
This executive team comprises four vice-chairpersons, three general secretaries, 61 secretaries, members and 62 special invitee members besides others. Rajkumar Mishra has been appointed as the treasurer. Additionally, senior SP member Mohammad Azam Khan's son Abdullah Azam Khan has been made the state secretary of the party.
Party's chief spokesperson Rajendra Chowdhury said that the 182-member state executive was declared after Akhilesh Yadav's approval. "With the consent of the National President of the Samajwadi Party and former Chief Minister, Shri Akhilesh Yadav, Shri Naresh Uttam Patel has been announced as the President of the 182-member state executive committee. This committee includes Shri Rajkumar Mishra as the treasurer and Shri Mo. Irfanul Haque, C.L. Verma, Shyam Lal Pal, and Rajendra S Bind as the vice presidents. Jayshankar Pandey, Ataur Rahman, and Anisur Rahman Ansari have been appointed as general secretaries. The state executive committee of the Samajwadi Party also includes 61 secretaries, 48 members, and 62 specially invited members," he said in a tweet.
SP leaders appointed as secretaries
According to the released list, Mo. Irfan Haque, C.L. Verma, Shyam Lal Pal, and Rajendra S Bind have been assigned the responsibility of vice-chairpersons. Meanwhile, for the position of general secretaries, Jay Shankar Pandey from Ayodhya, Ataur Rahman from Bareilly, and Anisur Rahman from Ambedkarnagar have been appointed. Additionally, Abdullah Azam, Jiya Uddin Rizvi, Sarvesh Ambedkar, Ram Singh Rana, Dayashankar Nishad, Pampi Jain, Mahendra Chauhan, Dharmvir Dubey, Jugul Kishor Balmiki, Dayaram Prajapati, Mangeraam Kashyap, Devnath Sahu, Kumud Lata Rajvanshi, Omkar Patel, Rukmani Nishad, and S.P. Singh Kushwaha, along with 61 other SP leaders, have been appointed as secretaries.
Members included in executive unit
Furthermore, leaders like Rajiv Sharma, Lalmann Rajbhar, Jiyaul Islam, Vishwanath Vishwakarma, Ram Kumar Kandere, Shyam Lal 'Bacchi Saini', Jay Gopal Soni, Vijay Shankar Nat, Rajiv Nath Sapehra, Bhaiya Ram Patel, Mohammed Ishhaq Ansari, Yogendra Singh Khadgavanshi, Mustak Kajmi, Arif Anwar Hashmi, Shashank Yadav, Maulana Israel, Maya Balmiki, Rajpal Sharma, Kamla Yadav, Anil Singh Veeru, Rahul Kaushik, Nafees Ahmad, Ramgopal Baghel, Sahjaram Verma, Balram Maurya, Deepak Chaurasiya Advocate, Devendra Pratap Swarnkar, Haji Jama Khan, Anand Singh Yadav, Yashpal Singh, Mohammed Atahar Khan, Shamim Ansari, Subhash Singh, Shafi Mansoori, Kamlesh Kumar Verma, Dilip Kamalapuri, Somveer Singh, Khuman Singh Verma Lodhi, Arvind Gupta, Shivamurti Singh Rana, Ragini Sonakar, and Shivmohan Chaudhary have also been appointed as members.
Viewed as an effort to rejuvenate the party following setbacks in the assembly and Lok Sabha bypolls in its strongholds of Rampur and Azamgarh, the Samajwadi Party (SP) dissolved its national, state, and district executive bodies of all its organizations last year, excluding its state president Naresh Uttam Patel.
