Staff Reporter / New Delhi
In a major organisational reshuffle in Congress party, senior party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad Motilal Vora, Ambika Soni, Mallikarjun Kharge and Luizinho Falerio have been dropped from their posts as general secretaries, while Randeep Surjewala has been included in the six-member committee that advises Congress president.
Azad and Soni, however, continue in the reconstituted working committee.
Azad was among 23 leaders who had written a letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi calling for a complete overhaul of the organisation, a full-time president and elections to Congress Working Committee.
P Chidambaram, Jitendra Singh, Tariq Anwar and Randeep Surjewala made regular CWC members in organisational rejig. The grand old party has also set up a special committee to assist interim President Sonia Gandhi in operational and organisational matters.
Ghulam Nabi Azad, who was in charge of Haryana, has been replaced by Vivek Bansal.
The biggest gainer from the reshuffle is Rahul Gandhi loyalist Randeep Surjewala, who has been inducted in the high-power six-member panel that advises the Congress president.
However, Jitin Prasad has received a promotion despite being a signatory on the controversial letter to Sonia Gandhi. Prasad has been appointed as the in-charge for West Bengal, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will continue to be in charge of Uttar Pradesh, while Rahul Gandhi loyalist Manickam Tagore will be the new secretary in-charge for Telangana.
Pawan Kumar Bansal will be the secretary in charge administration, Harish Rawat to be general secretary in-charge Punjab, Tariq Anwar to be in-charge for Kerala and Lakshadweep, Jitendra Singh in-charge Assam, and Oommen Chandy will be in-charge for Andhra Pradesh.
New members of the Congress Working Committee will be – Digvijay Singh, Rajiv Shukla, Manickam Tagore, Pramod Tiwari, Jairam Ramesh, HK Patil, Salman Khurshid, Pawan Bansal, Dinesh Gundurao, Manish Chatrath and Kuljit Nagra.
The special committee members include AK Antony, Ahmed Patel, KC Venugopal and Mukul Wasnik, apart from Ambika Soni and Randeep Surjewala.