# Ram Madhav, Vasundhara Raje return as BJP national vice-presidents 2026-08-17T17:32:27+00:00 | India | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets BJP president Nitin Nabin has appointed Ram Madhav and former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje as national vice-presidents in the party's latest organisational reshuffle. Former Union minister Smriti Irani returns as a national general secretary after losing the 2024 Lok Sabha election. The appointments bring several senior leaders back into the BJP's central organisational structure. Ram Madhav, 61, was a key RSS functionary before serving as BJP national general secretary from 2014 to 2020. Indiatoday.in describes him as a 'master tactician' who helped form the BJP-PDP government in Jammu and Kashmir in 2014 and orchestrated the BJP's expansion in the Northeast through the North-East Democratic Alliance. The outlet says his return restores a bridge between the RSS and the BJP at a time when the party is looking to expand its political footprint. The reshuffle retains RSS-linked functionaries B.L. Santosh as national general secretary (organisation) and Shivprakash and Saudan Singh as joint general secretaries. Piyush Goyal returns as treasurer. Amit Malviya, who headed the IT Cell, is not in the new list. The Hindu Businessline notes that Nabin has shaped the political leadership around him while keeping continuity in the party's organisational structure. ## Coverage - indiatoday.in - thehindubusinessline.com This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-08-17T17:41:46+00:00. Tags: BJP, Jammu and Kashmir, North-East Democratic Alliance, Ram Madhav, RSS Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/ram-madhav-returns-to-bjp-as-national-vice-president/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/ram-madhav-returns-to-bjp-as-national-vice-president/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/