Nitish Kumar reconstitutes JD(U)'s team of national office-bearers

New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) president Nitish Kumar on Saturday announced a new team of the party's national office-bearers, relieving several Lok Sabha MPs of their organisational positions and elevating K C Tyagi as political advisor.

Rajya Sabha MP Bashistha Narain Singh has been made vice president, replacing Mangani



Lal Mandal who is now one of the 11 general secretaries in the organisation.

In the outgoing team constituted by the then party president Lalan Singh, there were 22 general secretaries. Those removed as general secretaries include Uttar Pradesh strongman Dhananjay Singh and Harsh Vardhan Singh, among others.