2019 Lok Sabha polls: Rajnath Singh to head BJP's manifesto committee, Arun Jaitley to be in charge of publicity wing

New Delhi, Jan 6 (PTI) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday appointed senior leaders - Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley as the head of 20-member sankalp patra (manifesto) committee and publicity wing respectively for the Lok Sabha polls as its president Amit Shah formed 17 groups in preparation for the elections. [caption id=“attachment_5556071” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File photo of Home Minister Rajnath Singh. Twitter/@rajnathsingh[/caption] “Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Piyush Goyal and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan are the other members of the committee tasked with preparing the party’s manifesto,” a statement said. Jaitley will also be a member of this committee. “Union minister Nitin Gadkari will head a committee which will reach out to social and volunteer organisations while his Cabinet colleague Sushma Swaraj will head a group that will produce literature for the polls,” it added. Prasad will head the party’s media group while Union minister Prakash Javadekar will lead the wing which will organise meetings of intellectuals. The Lok Sabha polls are expected to be held in April-May with the BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a re-election.