【New Delhi】After the debacle in the recent Assembly elections, the Congress on Thursday set in motion the process to revamp the organisation by replacing state unit chiefs in Chhattisgarh, Delhi and Goa.
Former Delhi minister Arvinder Singh Lovely has been appointed Pradesh Congress president replacing J P Agarwal who had put in his papers after the party's rout in the Assembly elections.
Bhupesh Baghel, a former Chhattisgarh minister, succeeds Charandas Mahant as the PCC chief in the tribal-dominated state. Mahant was appointed Chhattisgarh PCC chief after the Congress leadership in the state was wiped out in a Maoist attack in May. Mahant was not on the best of terms with former chief minister Ajit Jogi, which was cited as one of the reasons for the party's loss in the recent Assembly elections.
On Wednesday, the Congress had appointed John F Fernandes as PCC chief of the Goa unit. He succeeded Subhash Shirodkar. Young MP Ashok Tanwar is expected to be named as the Haryana Congress chief on Friday. The party will soon announce new state unit chiefs in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. While Kantilal Bhuria heads the Madhya Pradesh unit, Chandrabhan had resigned as the president of the Rajasthan unit after he lost his Assembly seat in the recent elections. The Congress won only 21 seats in the 200-member Assembly.
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After debacle, Congress begins party revamp
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