New Delhi [India], June 22 (NT): The grand old Congress party on Friday appointed Mallikarjun Kharge as the AICC General Secretary, in charge of Maharashtra in the wake of 2019 assembly polls.

According to reports of ANI in addition, Sonal Patel, Ashish Dua, and Sampath Kumar have been appointed as the new secretaries for the Congress in Maharashtra.

On the other hand Christopher Tilak and C D Meyyappan are appointed as AICC secretaries of Andhra Pradesh.

 Earlier the Congress president Rahul Gandhi gave his consent for approval of the appointments of screening committees in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and Mizoram ahead of the upcoming polls.

Kumar Selja, Madhusudhan Mistry, Bhubaneshwar Kalita, V.D. Satheesan and Luizinho Falerioa were appointed as chairpersons of screening committees of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Odisha, and Mizoram respectively as ANI further reported.

The report further informed that JD Seelam and Mahendra Joshi were assigned as the Secretary and Shashi Kant Sharma as the Joint Secretary, All India Congress Committee (AICC) attached with the General Secretary, Incharge Organization.

In a press release issued by senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot, the Party acknowledged the hard work of Shyoraj Jivan Valmiki and Bala Bachchan, who  was over thrown as Secretary, AICC Maharashtra. (NT)