Ahead of the 2024 polls, in a major organisational reshuffle, the Congress on Saturday appointed Sachin Pilot, the former deputy chief minister of Rajasthan, as the party general secretary in Chhattisgarh and removed Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as the chief in Uttar Pradesh.

Congress leader and former Rajya Sabha MP Avinash Pande replaces Priyanka Gandhi as the general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh. He was serving as the party chief in Jharkhand.

The appointments come two days after a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party’s highest decision-making body, which was chaired by party president Mallikarjun Kharge and attended by senior leaders, including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

On Saturday, the party appointed a manifesto committee to be headed by former Union Minister P Chidambaram.

Mukul Wasnik, who has been in-charge of several states earlier, was placed in charge of Gujarat. Devender Yadav has been shifted from Uttarakhand to Punjab, Mohan Prakash has been brought back as Bihar in-charge, while Kumari Selja was moved from Chhattisgarh to Uttarakhand, and Manickam Tagore from Goa to Andhra Pradesh.

Apart from Pilot, new general secretaries are former Jammu and Kashmir Congress president Ghulam Ahmed Mir who is in charge of Jharkhand with additional charge of West Bengal and Deepa Dasmunsi, who has been given the charge of Kerala, Lakshadweep, and additional charge of Telangana.

Congress President Shri @kharge has assigned the organisational responsibilities to the following persons with immediate effect. pic.twitter.com/qWhwiJzysj

— Congress (@INCIndia) December 23, 2023

Several positions remained unchanged. Randeep Surjewala will continue to remain in-charge of Karnataka, Jairam Ramesh will continue as general secretary of communications and K C Venugopal has retained his position as AICC general secretary (organisation), the list showed.

Deepak Babaria will remain in charge of Delhi with additional charge of Haryana, while Jitendra Singh, who was the general secretary in charge of Assam has been given the additional charge of Madhya Pradesh. Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa will continue as the Rajasthan in-charge.

Interestingly, Maharashtra leader Manikrao Thakre who was in-charge of Telangana, where the party registered a triumph this time, has been shifted to Goa, Daman & Diu, and Dadra & Nagar Haveli.

Jitendra Singh, who is the general secretary in-charge of Assam, was given the additional charge of Madhya Pradesh, while Babaria was elevated as a general secretary and given the charge of Delhi, along with additional charge of Haryana, the statement said.

The rejig saw Tariq Anwar not making to the list as general secretary.

“The party appreciates the contributions of outgoing general secretary Shri Tariq Anwar and in-charges Shri Bhakta Charan Das, Shri Harish Chaudhary, Smt. Rajani Patil and Shri Manish Chatrath,” the statement added.

The statement said the appointments will come into effect immediately.