New Delhi, February 14. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday made organizational reshuffle and appointed new general secretaries and in-charges for many states. Along with this, many veteran leaders have also been removed from their posts.
Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Rajya Sabha MP Syed Naseer Hussain have been appointed general secretaries. Baghel has also been given charge of Punjab and Naseer Hussain has been given charge of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
With the responsibility of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh being handed over, Naseer Hussain has been relieved from the office of Congress President.
Apart from this, new in-charges have also been appointed for many states and union territories including the electoral state Bihar. Krishna Allavaru has been made in-charge of Bihar in place of Mohan Prakash.
Rajni Patil, Rajya Sabha MP from Maharashtra, has been appointed in-charge of Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh in place of veteran leader Rajiv Shukla.
B.K. Hariprasad has been made in-charge of Haryana, Harish Chaudhary of Madhya Pradesh, Girish Chodankar of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, Ajay Kumar Lallu of Odisha, K. Raju of Jharkhand, Meenakshi Natrajan of Telangana and Saptagiri Shankar Ulaka of Manipur, Tripura, Sikkim and Nagaland.
Deepak Babaria, Mohan Prakash, Bharat Singh Solanki, Rajiv Shukla, Devendra Yadav and Ajay Kumar have been relieved. The charge of states has been withdrawn from these leaders.
Devendra Yadav was in-charge of Punjab, Ajay Kumar of Odisha, Deepak Babaria of Haryana, Bharat Singh Solanki of Jammu and Kashmir.
Earlier on Thursday, former MLA Harshvardhan Sapkal was appointed as the President of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee.
