Kharge, Rahul meet AICC secretaries, joint secretaries to strengthen organisation

Rahul Gandhi held a meeting with AICC secretaries and joint secretaries. (Photo: PTI)

2 min read Last updated: September 3, 2024 | 1:55 p.m. IST

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday held a meeting with AICC secretaries and joint secretaries, during which ways to strengthen the party organisation were discussed.

Kharge and Gandhi met leaders at the AICC headquarters and sought their advice on strengthening the organisation and broadening the party’s support base, sources said.

The meeting comes days after a major organizational reshuffle in which the party appointed several new secretaries and deputy secretaries while reshuffling the states of some office-holders.

In a post on X, Kharge said the Congress would reach out to all Indians.

The Congress will address all Indians.

We chaired a meeting of the newly appointed secretaries and deputy secretaries of the AICC.

We are committed to strengthening our organization, engaging every voice, and continuing to speak truth to power.

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— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) September 3, 2024

“We chaired a meeting of the newly appointed AICC secretaries and deputy secretaries. We are determined to strengthen our organisation, involve every voice and continue to speak truth to power,” the Congress president said.

Kharge appointed secretaries and joint secretaries of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) for various states and union territories.

These officials are associated with the general secretaries and party officials in the respective states.

Pranav Jha and Gaurav Pandhi, who are coordinators in the Congress president’s office, have been appointed as AICC secretaries.

While Vineet Punia, who is AICC secretary in the party’s communication department, has been given the same responsibility, Ruchira Chaturvedi has been appointed as the secretary of the department along with him.

Two former Rajasthan MPs, Danish Abrar and Divya Maderna, have also been appointed as secretaries for Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh respectively.

Former All India Mahila Congress president Netta D’Souza, former NSUI president Neeraj Kundan and Naveen Sharma are said to be working as AICC secretaries along with Venugopal.

Manoj Tyagi and Sushant Mishra have been appointed as Joint Secretaries, Administration.

A party leader said that those who work in the organization and have been loyal to the party have been rewarded in this reorganization.

The meeting comes ahead of assembly elections in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir, followed by those in Maharashtra and Jharkhand later this year.

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First published: September 3, 2024 | 1:55 p.m. IST