New Delhi: In a significant organisational rejig forward of the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress on Saturday appointed Avinash Pande the overall secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, changing Priyanka Gandhi Vadra whereas Sachin Pilot was made the overall secretary in-charge of Chhattisgarh.
Priyanka Gandhi will now be a normal secretary “without any assigned portfolio”, in response to a press release issued by the get together.
Pilot, together with GA Mir, Dipak Babaria, and Deepa Dasmunshi, was appointed as normal secretaries, whereas Tariq Anwar was dropped from the checklist.
Pande was earlier AICC in-charge of Jharkhand.
The appointments come two days after a gathering of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the get together’s highest decision-making physique, which was chaired by get together president Mallikarjun Kharge and attended by senior leaders, together with Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Pilot, a former deputy chief minister of Rajasthan, replaces Kumari Selja, who has now been given the function of normal secretary in-charge of Uttarakhand, the assertion stated.
Congress chief Mir is the overall secretary in-charge of Jharkhand with the extra cost of West Bengal, it stated.
Dasmunshi has been given the cost of Kerala and Lakshadweep with extra cost of Telangana.
Senior leaders Jairam Ramesh, Ok C Venugopal, Mukul Wasnik, and Randeep Singh Surjewala stay the overall secretaries in-charge of communication, organisation, Gujarat, and Karnataka, respectively.
Jitendra Singh, who’s the overall secretary in-charge of Assam, was given the extra cost of Madhya Pradesh, whereas Babaria was elevated as a normal secretary and given the cost of Delhi, together with extra cost of Haryana, the assertion stated.
Ajay Maken continues to be the treasurer, whereas Milind Deora and Vijay Inder Singla have been made joint treasurers.
Social gathering president Kharge additionally appointed in-charges for various states. Ramesh Chennithala is the in-charge of Maharashtra, Mohan Prakash of Bihar, Chellakumar of Meghalaya, Mizoram & Arunachal Pradesh, Ajoy Kumar of Odisha, with a further cost of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, and Bharatsinh Solanki of Jammu and Kashmir.
Rajeev Shukla is the in-charge of Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa of Rajasthan, Devender Yadav of Punjab, Manikrao Thakre of Goa, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli, whereas Girish Chodankar is made in-charge of Tripura, Sikkim, Manipur and Nagaland.
Manickam Tagore is the in-charge of Andhra Pradesh and Andaman & Nicobar whereas Gurdeep Singh Sappal is the in-charge of administration.
“The party appreciates the contributions of outgoing general secretary Shri Tariq Anwar and in-charges Shri Bhakta Charan Das, Shri Harish Chaudhary, Smt. Rajani Patil and Shri Manish Chatrath,” the assertion added.
MP Syed Naseer Hussain, who’s a member of the CWC, was made in-charge of Congress president’s workplace, and Pranav Jha will likely be AICC secretary hooked up to Congress president’s workplace communication.
The assertion stated the appointments will come into impact instantly. PTI AO KVK KVK
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