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The age of the 'karyakarta': Meet Om Birla, the new Lok Sabha Speaker

Birla, second term BJP MP from Rajasthan's Kota-Bundi Lok Sabha constituency and a lifelong party worker, was the surprise pick for the Speaker's post

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Om Birla was an active youth leader of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of the BJP during his college days

Archis Mohan New Delhi
New Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla represents the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) top leadership’s efforts at pitchforking ‘loyal party karyakartas’ to key positions.

In picking his new council of ministers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dropped several ministers from his previous government who were considered ‘outsiders’, including such names as Suresh Prabhu, Maneka Gandhi, Jayant Sinha and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore.

BJP’s Thaawarchand Gehlot, the Union social justice and empowerment minister who started his career as a factory worker in Ujjain, is now the Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha.

Birla, second term BJP MP from Rajasthan’s Kota-Bundi Lok Sabha constituency and a