Smriti Irani and Vasundhara Raje Return in Major BJP Reshuffle
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India's ruling party BJP has made big changes to its team.
The party is called the BJP. It is the biggest party in India.
Smriti Irani is back. She is now a general secretary. This is an important job in the party.
Vasundhara Raje is also back. She is a former state leader. Now she is a national vice president.
Two other men, Ram Madhav and Baijayant Panda, are also new national vice presidents.
This is called a reshuffle. A reshuffle means new people get new jobs.
The party made this change before some important elections. In India, we call elections "polls".
The BJP wants more young people to join the party. This is why some new, younger leaders got jobs too.
People are asking if Anurag Thakur will also get a big new job soon.
Vocabulary15 words
- BJP
- a big political party in India
- general secretary
- an important job leading a group
- national vice president
- a top leader in a whole country's party
- reshuffle
- a change of jobs for a group of people
- polls
- another word for elections
- comeback
- coming back after being away
- party
- a group of people who share the same political ideas
- leader
- a person who guides a group
- team
- a group of people working together
- senior
- having a high or important position
- former
- in the past, but not now
- youth
- young people
- important
- having big meaning or value
- change
- when something becomes different
- job
- work that a person does
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1. General secretary 2. Ram Madhav and Baijayant Panda 3. Ahead of key elections
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India's ruling party BJP has made big _____ to its team.
The party is called the _____. It is the biggest party in India.
Smriti Irani is back. She is now a _____. This is an important job in the party.
Vasundhara Raje is also back. She is a former state leader. Now she is a _____.
Two other men, Ram Madhav and Baijayant Panda, are also new _____.
This is called a _____. A reshuffle means new people get new jobs.
The party made this change before some important elections. In India, we call elections "_____".
The BJP wants more young _____ to join the party.
People are asking if Anurag Thakur will also get a big new _____ soon.