Tamil Nadu Pradesh Congress Committee (TNCC) has made multiple appointments ahead of the assembly elections in May 2021, according to an official statement by the Indian National Congress (INC) party. The statement was issued on Saturday by Congress general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP KC Venugopal and was approved by the party president Sonia Gandhi. 

The latest change over in the party’s state leadership, new appointments have been made to vice presidents, general secretaries, treasurer, secretaries, heads of district party units and key election committees with immediate effect. Senior party members namely, Rajya Sabha MP P Chidambaram, TNCC president KS Alagiri, Karti P Chidambaram and former members of parliament Manishankar Aiyer and EVKS Elangovan have been appointed to key positions in election management committees. Newly appointed Party Treasurer is Ruby R Manoharan and a 56-member executive committee and a 34-member pradesh election committee, both headed by K S Alagiri, has been formed. 

A 19-member election coordination committee headed by EVKS Elangovan has also been newly appointed. Congress Legislature Party leader K R Ramasamy has been appointed to the 6-member election management team and former MP K V Thangabalu has been appointed to the publicity committee. Party chairman S Peter Alphonse and convenor Americai V Narayanan have been appointed to the manifesto committee. Tiruchirappalli Lok Sabha constituency MP Su Thirunavukkarasar has been appointed to the 38-member election propaganda/campaign committee. After the official announcement, TN Congress leader Karti P Chidambaram, in a tweet, commented that the committees serve no purpose. He also said that the leaders would have no authority owing to which, accountability would also lack. 

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