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While Azad was inducted as the new general secretary, the Congress president divested three states in-charge Ajay Maken (Jharkhand and Orissa), Kishore Chandra Deo (programme monitoring) and Arun Kumar (Tamil Nadu) of the responsibility. Maken and Deo have been freed of the responsibility as they are contesting the Parliamentary elections.
While Deo was retained as a CWC member, former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, Goa Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro and former Andhra Pradesh PCC Chief K Keshav Rao have been made permanent invitees to CWC. Preparing for a tough battle against the BJP in Karnataka, Sonia Gandhi has also inducted Karnataka CLP leader Mallikarjun Kharge into the CWC.
While the senior Karnataka leader Margaret Alva failed to get rehabilitated, former Home Minister Shivraj Patil, who was forced to resign after Mumbai terror attacks last year, was partially rehabilitated by being made the chairman of the screening committee of Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Nagaland and Tripura.
The reshuffle carried out to put in place a team for the forthcoming elections, changes the responsibilities of nine general secretaries and 38 secretaries.
It, however, retained the responsibilities of Rahul Gandhi (NSUI and Youth Congress), Digvijay Singh (In-charge UP) and Veerappa Moily (in-charge, Assam and Andhra Pradesh).
Among the major changes, Luizinho Faleiro was made the in-charge of Sikkim, Meghalaya and Manipur while West Bengal and Jharkhand was assigned to K Keshav Rao. Mohsina Kidwai, who has been handling the charge of Kerala and West Bengal, was assigned Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Chandigarh, Lakshadweep and Mahila Congress.
Another general secretary, Mukul Wasnik, was assigned the charge of Delhi, which was handled by Ashok Gehlot before taking over as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, and Congress Seva Dal in addition to his charge of Rajasthan.
Prithviraj Chauhan, who was divested of the responsibility of Karnataka, will continue to handle Jammu and Kashmir and has been assigned the charge of Haryana as well.
General secretary Janardan Dwivedi has been assigned the additional charge of organisational election and training. He has also been assigned the responsibility of programme co-ordination, earlier with Kishore Chandra Deo.
In an apparent concession to Maratha strong man Sharad Pawar, senior party leader A K Antony has been retained as the party in-charge for Maharashtra while R K Dhawan has been made in-charge of Uttarakhand.
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The four crucial states will be Azad's waterloo. There could not have been a worse choice made by the Congress. Azad commands absolutely no respect in those states. Congress failure in the four states is now sealed.
In Tamil Nadu the congress and D.M.K will get maximum 2 seats wait and see the people are now aware of the double talk of both the parties.Congress and D.M.K are only promoting their family and their only intrerest is to bring their kin to power they have ditched the tamils in the Sri Lanka issue the Tamils will teach them a lesson which they wont forget for their lifetime.
Ghulam Nabi Azad buried the congress in Jammu Kashmir now he will do it in the other states well done Sonia keep it up.
Proven loser Moily will perform the last rites of Samuel Reddy in Andhra
Whoever be the incharge, Congress is the arch enemy for Tamilians from now on, they will lick their wounds in the coming election. I wish to see Pranab Mukherjee losing the deposit in the coming election. Anyways, why should we bother about Indian Union, when it is instrumental in genocide of my tamil people.
Congrats
There is a saying in Panjabi "Anna wunde rewarhan, munh murh apnaye noo".Ghulam Nabi Azad has been "zar khareed ghulam " (of Nehru mamily).If any body was to read his life history, he/she would know that he has all along been a chamcha number 1.We have yet to know his achievements as CM of J$K.the fact is that there is none.
No matter how we look at it, Congress is still the best bet for India. They need to come back with a clear majority. At least their team is honest and delivers. The prime minister is busy working and not indulging in dirty politics. This reflects and helps the lower hierarchy as well. No doubt they sure are weak on war on terror but then nobody in India today is any different in any other party. Talk is cheap and once in power, they are all the same and go on defensive. We need a new breed that attacks even before the attacker attempt to. May be one day!
Right - get a Minority general secretary. I think we should give education as a priority to minorities so they can see through this facade. Congress should pay dearly for playing minority card again and again and bringing the country to a disaster. I wish congress would die overnight and India wakes up a better country