Sonia constitutes new CWC | Mohsina droppedSonia | names new working committee, makes changes in key states
G. Venkatswami dropped; Oscar Fernandes promoted as General Secretary; P. Chidambaram, a permanent invitee
There was no generational shift nor, indeed, any dramatic changes as Congress President Sonia Gandhi finally reconstituted the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party’s apex body, and the Secretariat on Friday. Even though a little over a third of the CWC members, including the Permanent and Special Invitees to the CWC, were dropped, three of the nine general secretaries and half the secretaries were replaced. A senior party leader commented on the changes:“It is never a complete departure from the past.” The message, if there was one, was change with continuity.
March 4 (IANS) Six months after she was re-elected Congress president, Sonia Gandhi Friday unveiled the party’s new working committee and her team of central office-bearers, retaining key functionaries like Rahul Gandhi, Ahmed Patel and Digvijay Singh, and making changes in some major states, including trouble-torn Andhra Pradesh.
Apart from Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Ahmed Patel and Digvijay Singh, the new working committee – the party’s highest decision-making body – includes senior leaders Pranab Mukerjee, A.K. Antony, Motilal Vora, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Janardan Dwivedi, Mukul Wasnik, B.K. Hariprasad and Ambika Soni.
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