In a major organisational overhaul, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan have been dropped from the BJP’s parliamentary board – party’s top decision-making body.

Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa and former Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal have been included in the revamped apex organisation body.

The other new members of the party’s parliamentary board include Sudha Yadav, Iqbal Singh Lalpura, Satyanarayan Jatiya and K Lakshman.

Lalpura will be the first Sikh to be a member of the BJP parliamentary board as a person from a minority community.

The 11-member board, headed by the party’s national president JP Nadda, has Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Home Minister Amit Shah as its members.

The BJP also rejigged its Central Election Committee and included former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister Bhupender Yadav.

The other new members of the election panel are Om Mathur and BJP’s women wing chief Vanathi Srinivasan. Former Union minister Shahnawaz Hussain and Jual Oram have been dropped from the CEC, whose members also include all parliamentary board members.

Yediyurappa thanked Prime Minister Modi, Nadda and Amit Shah for giving him the “opportunity” to serve on BJP parliamentary board and CEC.