VARANASI, Oct. 28 -- Fourteen Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders from Varanasi have been inducted as members of the Uttar Pradesh BJP State Working Committee, while prominent leaders such as Ashok Dhawan, Rakesh Trivedi and Jyotsana Srivastava have been dropped. Kashi region BJP vice-president Navratan Rathi said 14 leaders from the region, including Kedarnath Singh, Shivnath Yadav, former mayor Ramgopal Mohle, Dr Veena Pandey, Vidyasagar Rai, Sudhir Mishra, Sudhir Singh, Haider Abbas Chand, Shashikant Rai, Saurabh Singh, Satya Prakash Singh 'Akhand', Meena Chaubey, Nirmala Patel and Ajay Kumar Singh, have been inducted as members of the UP BJP State Working Committee. Rathi said the appointments would strengthen Kashi's representation in the party organisation. He added that the newly inducted members had thanked the party leadership for the opportunity, while Kashi region BJP office-bearers expressed satisfaction with the appointments and congratulated the new members. Kashi region BJP president Ashok Chaurasia, city president Pradeep Agrahari, district president Ram Sakal Patel, regional vice-presidents Navratan Rathi, Anil Srivastava and Amit Rai, and regional media co-convenors Santosh Solapurkar and Shailendra Mishra congratulated the newly inducted members and extended their best wishes. Party office-bearers expressed confidence that the leaders would play a key role in strengthening the organisation, taking the party's policies and ideology to the masses, and accelerating organisational activities....