Digvijaya Singh removed as Congress in-charge of Goa, Karnataka

The Congress on Saturday removed Digvijaya Singh as party general secretary in-charge for Goa and Karnataka. The move comes nearly two months after the party failed to form government in Goa despite having secured the maximum number of seats in the Assembly elections. Senior Congress leader Madhusudan Mistry has also been removed from the position of the party general secretary.

AICC secretary Dr A Chella Kumar of Tamil Nadu replaces him as in-charge of Goa, while Maharashtra PCC general secretary Amit Deshmukh (41), Latur MLA and son of late Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, has been made an AICC Secretary and deputed to assist Chella Kumar.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi also named KC Venugopal as the person in charge of the party’s affairs in Karnataka. His assistant secretaries are Manickam Tagore, P C Vishnunadh, Madhu Yashki Goud and Dr Sake Sailjanath.

Digvijayaa Singh was sacked as the general secretary following complaints from Goa that he failed to approach the Governor for forming a Congress government and thus gave opportunity to the BJP to form the government.