Four months after he and other former Aam Aadmi Party MPs joined the BJP, Sandeep Pathak today found a place in the new team of BJP national president Nitin Nabin.Pathak has been named one of the 16 BJP national secretaries and is the only leader among recent defectors to be assigned a key organisational role in the party.Sources say BJP will rely on Pathak for its Punjab election strategy. The state goes to polls next year and Pathak, a former long-time aide of Arvind Kejriwal, is widely credited with scripting AAP’s 2022 Punjab landslide, in which the party won 92 of the 117 Assembly seats.A Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab, Pathak is already learnt to be working on poll arithmetic for the BJP in the state. He is known to have close ties with a section of AAP MLAs and is expected to play a significant behind-the-scenes role in shaping the party’s strategy.It remains to be seen if Vikramjit Singh Sahney and Raghav Chadha, two other high-profile former AAP MPs now in the BJP, find a place in the reshuffle of the Union Council of Ministers expected in the coming days.With Ravneet Singh Bittu no longer in the council and Hardeep Singh Puri’s Rajya Sabha term nearing its end, suspense is growing on whether a new face from Punjab will be inducted into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet.