Sunil Jakhar is new Punjab Cong chief
Friday, 05/05/2017
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New Delhi : The Congress on Thursday announced new chiefs of the party units in Punjab and Uttarakhand, and appointed Avinash Pande as in-charge of party affairs in Rajasthan where assembly elections will be held next year. Former Minister Sunil Jakhar has been appointed Punjab Congress chief in place of Amarinder Singh, who again became Chief Minister after the party romped to power in the state after 10 years.
In Uttarakhand, where the Congress lost the February 15 assembly elections, former state Minister Pritam Singh has replaced Kishore Upadhyaya as PCC chief. The party also appointed four Secretaries to assist Pande, who has been elevated as General Secretary. They are Vivek Bansal, Quazi Mohammad Nizamuddin, Devender Yadav, and Tarun Kumar.
In April, the Congress appointed new party in-charges in Gujarat and Karnataka where elections will be held in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Senior leader Digvijay Singh was removed as Congress General Secretary in charge of Karnataka as well as Goa and replaced by K C Venugopal, a Rahul Gandhi loyalist, in the southern state. Earlier in April, former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot was put in charge of Gujarat. Party Communications Department in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala told reporters that changes will be made in party organisation in other poll-bound states.
