Sonia Gandhi has begun the process of hand-picking key personnels who would be in charge of the organisation at different levels.
Sonia Gandhi has begun the process of hand-picking key personnels who would be in charge of the organisation at different levels. The move comes just eight days before the session of the All India Congress Committee.
In the first set of such appointments, the Congress chief named 18 presidents of the state units, largely retaining the incumbents, but drafting G Parameswar as a dalit face in the politically-troubled Karnataka and banking on the trusted former chief minister Amarinder Singh in Punjab.
But key decisions regarding the factionally-divided states of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat have not been disclosed yet.
The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chiefs in these states have not exactly covered themselves with glory, with Manikrao Thakre (Maharashtra) being embroiled in a recent controversy, and Suresh Pachauri (MP), Dhanendra Sahu (Chhattisgarh) and Siddharth Patel (Gujarat) all having led the party to electoral disasters.
“We should have these decisions too before the AICC meets on November 2,” a senior leader said.
There was very little to be surprised in the states were the incumbents have been retained although Reeta Bahuguna Joshi’s continuation in Uttar Pradesh and the retention of Bhuvaneswar Kalita in Assam has baffled observers.
Elsewhere in Kerala (Ramesh Chennithala), West Bengal (Manas Bhunia), JP Agrawal (Delhi), Bhubaneshwar Kaul Singh Thakur (Himachal Pradesh) and BB Bahal (Chandigarh) and AV Subramaniam (Puduchery) and Yashpal Arya (Uttarakhand) have been retained.
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