UP, Gujarat, UT, Punjab- Election 2007

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<b>BJP clips Modi's wings, sacks him </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Delhi: The BJP has cut down Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to size. In a reshuffle of the party’s senior leadership, Modi been dropped from the Central Parliamentary Board.

Party president Rajnath Singh has also replaced General Secretary Sanjay Joshi (Organisation) with Ramlal Agarwal. CNN-IBN’s Political Editor Diptosh Majumdar says that people will read a lot of politics in Modi’s removal.

<b>The BJP’s Central Parliamentary Board is not an all-powerful organisation but it decides a lot of things when it comes selecting candidates for elections.</b>

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<b>Gopinath Munde, a prominent OBC leader from Maharashtra and brother-in-law of late Pramod Mahajan, has been made a general secretary. </b>

<b>Yashwant Sinha, who was sidelined for criticising Advani, has been rehabilitated as a party vice-president</b>.

Former union minister <b>Rajiv Pratap Rudy replaces senior party spokesperson Arun Jaitley as spokesperson, but Jaitley gets a spot in the Parliamentary Board </b>as its secretary.
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Why they dropped him? is it minority appeasement policy before UP election or something else.