Shiv Prakash | |
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| Joint National General Secretary (Organisation),Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| Assumed office July 2014 | |
| President | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1967-08-01)1 August 1967 (age 58) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Alma mater | Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Website | www |
Shiv Prakash (born 1 August 1967) is an Indian politician and the current Joint National General Secretary (Organization) of theBharatiya Janata Party.[1][2] He was assigned to the party from theRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 2014.[3][4]
Shiv Prakash was born on 1 August 1967, in Birubala, a small village inUttar Pradesh. He completed his studies atMahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University.[citation needed]
Shiv Prakash started his political career in 1986 as a district-level coordinator of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.[5][6] In 2008, the RSS gave him the responsibility ofWestern Uttar Pradesh andUttarakhand.[7]
In 2014, he was transferred to the BJP to take charge as joint general secretary,[8][9] soon after overseeing the party's victory in Uttar Pradesh in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.[10][11] Shiv Prakash, along with former Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad leader Arvind Menon, started working behind the scenes to lay the foundation of the BJP in the eastern states.[12][13]
In 2015, he came toWest Bengal, where he worked at the booth level, learned the Bengali language, and formed party committees at 78,000 booths. The result was that the BJP won an unexpected victory in the state in the2019 Lok Sabha election.[14]
Currently, he is responsible for party-related development work in the states ofMadhya Pradesh,Chhattisgarh,Andhra Pradesh,Telangana and West Bengal.[15][16]
As of July 2023, in the most recent restructuring of the central leadership within the BJP, Shiv Prakash has been reaffirmed in his role as the Joint National General Secretary (Organization).[17] The role of Joint National General Secretary is typically designated for members associated with the RSS. The responsibilities of those in this position encompass managing state-level party affairs, overseeing organizational matters, and serving as a crucial liaison between the BJP and the RSS, its ideological progenitor. Prakash continued to hold the position, albeit with an enhanced scope of responsibilities.[18]
In 2016, an insider from the BJP disclosed to the media that concerns had arisen within the central leadership regarding the open conflict betweenBhagat Singh Koshyari, then a potential candidate for the position ofChief Minister of Uttarakhand, and Shiv Prakash, who held the role of in-charge within theUttarakhand BJP State Unit. The source revealed that Koshyari publicly voiced his discontent during the state executive meeting, where he critiqued Prakash for his alleged authoritative control over the state unit. This led to a verbal altercation between the two.[19]
| Preceded by | Joint National General Secretary (Organisation) ofBhartiya Janta Party 2014-present |