NEW DELHI: In an organisational reshuffle, Congress on Friday appointed new general secretaries and in-charges for several states.
In a press release, the party said that Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge appointed Bhupesh Baghel as the AICC general secretary in charge of Punjab and Rajya Sabha MP Syed Naseer Hussain as the general secretary in charge of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Naseer Hussain has been relieved of his responsibilities in the Congress president's office.
Rajya Sabha member Rajani Patil has been appointed as AICC in-charge of Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh.
BK Hariprasad has been given the charge of Haryana, where the Congress suffered a massive defeat in the recent assembly polls.
Harish Chaudhary has been given the charge of Madhya Pradesh, Girish Chodankar - Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, Ajay Kumar Lallu - Odisha, K Raju - Jharkhand, Meenakshi Natarajan - Telangana, Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka - Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim and Krishna Allavaru - Bihar.
The party said that it appreciated the contribution of six outgoing general secretaries, Dipak Babria, Mohan Prakash, Bharatsinh Solanki, Rajeev Shukla, Ajay Kumar and Devender Yadav.
All other general secretaries and in-charges will continue to serve in their designated capacities, it said.