The Congress on Thursday appointed Avinash Pande as its general secretary in-charge for Rajasthan and named Sunil Jakhar and Pritam Singh as the party chiefs of Punjab and Uttarakhand respectively. A former Rajya Sabha member from Maharashtra, Pande has been a party secretary for nearly a decade now. The Congress has tried to balance caste equations in both Punjab and Uttarakhand, where assembly elections were held in February-March this year. The Congress was keen on maintaining the Sikh-Hindu combination in Punjab after winning the assembly elections. KC Venugopal, a Lok Sabha MP from Kerala, was named as the new Congress general secretary in-charge of Karnataka.

Source: Hindustan Times May 04, 2017 11:15 UTC