By IANS,
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Tuesday appointed Shrikant Sharma, a former Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) leader, as national convener of the media cell.
Sharma, who has been working in the BJP’s media cell in various capacities since 2004, has been functioning as media coordinator since Gadkari took over as president last December. He was appointed co-convener of the media cell during term of previous party president Rajnath Singh.
Sharma was president of DAV College Students Union here in 1991. He contested for general secretary’s post in Delhi University Students Union polls in 1992-93. He has also been a member of the national executive of the BJP’s youth wing, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha.