New BJP president Amit Shah today announced his team and the notable absentee from Shah's team was Varun Gandhi.

The Sultanpur MP has been dropped as general secretary by Shah, who has included Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa as vice-president and new RSS pointsman Ram Madhav as general secretary.

Shah's team of party office bearers includes 11 vice-presidents, eight general secretaries and 14 secretaries. The new team also includes 10 party spokespersons, five of them are new.

Varun's mother Maneka Gandhi is a minister in Modi government. Shah, however, retained general secretaries JP Nadda, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Murlidhar Rao and Ramlal.

Sources said that Shah dropped Varun from his team because his mother has been inducted in the Modi Cabinet.

The four new general secretaries are Ram Madhav, the RSS man who joined the BJP only weeks ago, outgoing BJP Mahila Morcha chief Saroj Pandey, Rajya Sabha MP from Rajasthan Bhupendra Yadav and Ram Shankar Katheriya.

Yeddyurappa, who had quit BJP to form his own party and then rejoined d BJP on poll eve, is among the 11 vice-presidents in Shah's new team. Former Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has been retained as vice-president.

The five spokespersons who have been retained by Shah are MJ Akbar, Shahnawaz Hussain, Sudhanshu Trivedi, Meenakshi Lekhi and Vijay Sonkar Shastri.

The new spokespersons are Nalin Kohli, Sambit Patra, Anil Baluni, G V L Narasimha Rao and Lalita Kumaramangalam.

Among the new secretaries, Shrikant Sharma and Sidharth Nath Singh have been given the responsibility of Uttar Pradesh.

"All the states and communities are represented in this team," Nadda tweeted.