Rahul Gandhi chooses Ahmed Patel as Congress treasurer

New Delhi, Aug 21 In a major rejig ahead of the critical 2019 general assembly elections, the Congress on Tuesday reported new parts for a few stalwarts including Rajya Sabha MP Ahmed Patel.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi delegated Ahmed Patel as AICC treasurer of the party. Patel will supplant Motilal Vora, who has been designated as general secretary accountable for organization. Vora hosted been dealing with the get-together's coffers for a very long time.

Patel, political secretary of previous Congress president Sonia Gandhi, is a Rajya Sabha part. He is known as a key asset mobiliser for the party and has prior served the post of treasurer.

In another critical improvement, Rahul selected previous Union minister Anand Sharma as the director of the gathering's outside undertakings division supplanting Karan Singh, the Congress said in an announcement. Luizinho Salerio was selected as AICC general secretary in-charge of north-eastern states, barring Assam, supplanting CP Joshi. Previous speaker Meira Kumar has been made a changeless welcome to the Congress working committee, the highest decision-making body of the party.

The rejig in the gathering comes right around multi month after the Rahul constituted a new team of the Congress Working Committee and dropped veterans like Digvijaya Singh, Janardan Dwivedi, Kamal Nath, Sushilkumar Shinde and Karan Singh. The new Congress Working Committee incorporates 23 members, 19 permanent invitees and 9 special invitees.

Other than Rahul, previous party chief Sonia Gandhi and previous Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, all previous Congress boss clergymen Ashok Gehlot, Oommen Chandy, Tarun Gogoi, Siddharamaiah and Harish Rawat were incorporated.

Other prominent exclusions are Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, who was prior a perpetual invitee to the body, previous Haryana boss priest Bhupinder Singh Hooda, previous Himachal chief minister Virbhadra Singh and gathering veterans Mohan Prakash, Oscar Fernandes, C P Joshi and Mohsina Kidwai. Be that as it may, Hooda's child Deepender Singh has been made a special invitee.

The CWC was dissolved prior to the election of the Congress president and the prior board was changed into a controlling advisory group till the gathering's entire session that finished up in March. The CWC, which goes about as a warning board on every key choice of the gathering, was not set up since the plenary session in March.