Talk of reshuffle in AICC as Mohsina Kidwai becomes governor

Talk of a reshuffle in the AICC has begun after its general secretary Mohsina Kidwai was today appointed Governor of Jharkhand.

Talk of a reshuffle in the AICC has begun after its general secretary Mohsina Kidwai was today appointed Governor of Jharkhand.

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Kidwai looked after party affairs in West Bengal, Kerala and Punjab.

At present, there are nearly half a dozen vacancies in the party hierarchy while a number of party leaders are holding
dual charges of an AICC functionary as well as a minister.

Four party general secretaries - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mukul Wasnik, Prithviraj Chavan and V Narayanasamy were inducted into the Union Council of Ministers when Congress-led UPA came back to power in May last year.

Azad is in-charge of party affairs in Tamil Nadu and Orissa, while Wasnik is in-charge of Rajasthan and Delhi.

Chavan is in-charge of Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir.

Besides, Law Minister M Veerappa Moily is in-charge of Andhra Pradesh, where the announcement of a separate state of Telengana has created a row. Defence Minister AK Antony is the in-charge for Maharashtra.

Among others holding dual charges are C P Joshi, Union Minister for Rural Development, who is Rajasthan Congress
chief and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the PCC chief of West Bengal.

Oscar Fernandes, who was a minister in the previous government, is likely to come back to the organisation, as a
general secretary. Fernandes is considered a trouble-shooter in party circles