ANIL BALUNI APPOINTED HEAD OF THE PARTY MEDIA DEPARTMENT,BJP

BJP spokesperson Anil Baluni is appointed as the head of the party’s media department. BJP spokesperson in Bihar Sanjay Mayukh would be sub-head of the cell. Baluni (45), who has been active with BJP in Uttarakhand since 1993, replaces Shrikant Sharma, who is now the Energy Minister in UP. He is believed to enjoy the confidence of both PM Narendra Modi and Shah.

Before being made the face of BJP in heated TV debates, Baluni, a native of Pauri Garhwal, was spokesperson of Uttarakhand BJP. He also had a stint as deputy chairman of Uttarakhand state Forest and Environment Committee. A lover of nature, he is an authority on flora and fauna of Uttarakhand.

Baluni’s association with BJP started with ABVP when he was a Delhi University student. The commerce graduate holds a diploma in journalism too. It was during his journalism course that he started visiting Sangh offices and Sundar Singh Bhandari, then a prominent Sangh leader, spotted him. When Bhandari went to Patna as Governor, Baluni became his OSD and later accompanied him to the Gujarat Raj Bhavan.

The new role, Baluni hopes, would help him walk a long way in his political life. “I will be working to take the party’s ideology to people with the help of media,” he said.
Mayukh, an MLC in Bihar, had earlier served in the party’s national media wing before being moved to the state.