{"id":301699,"date":"2018-08-21T10:27:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T10:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301699"},"modified":"2018-08-21T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T10:30:34","slug":"ahmed-patel-meira-kumar-falerio-get-key-posts-in-congress-reshuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ahmed-patel-meira-kumar-falerio-get-key-posts-in-congress-reshuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Patel, Meira Kumar, Falerio get key posts in Congress reshuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":ps\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":pt\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300695 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rahul-cwc-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-cwc-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-cwc-768x589.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-cwc-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-cwc-696x534.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-cwc-548x420.jpg 548w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-cwc.jpg 1009w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>To set the tone for the 2019 general election, Congress president Rahul Gandhi today made some changes in the party set up. The changes come a month after Rahul Gandhi restructured the party set up and dropped veterans such as Digvijaya Singh, Sushikumar Shinde, Janardhan Dwivedi and CP Joshi from the all-powerful CWC and appointed some new faces in their place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Senior leader Ahmed Patel has been appointed the new treasurer in place of Motilal Vora.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vora, the veteran Congress leader who was hitherto the party treasurer has been made AICC general secretary administration. It is a newly-created post to accommodate Motilal Vora. Patel, who turned 69 today, was earlier the political secretary of former party chief Sonia Gandhi. He had earlier served as the AICC treasurer from 1996 to 2000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi also appointed former Union minister Anand Sharma as the chairperson of the party&#8217;s foreign affairs department replacing Karan Singh, AICC general secretary, organization, Ashok Gehlot said in a statement.\u00a0\u00a0Former speaker Meira Kumar was made a permanent invitee to the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the highest decision-making body of the party.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Luizinho Falerio was appointed as AICC general secretary in-charge of the northeastern states, except Assam. He replaces C P Joshi, who ceases to be the party general secretary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The party appreciates the hard work and contribution of Motilal Vora as treasurer of the party,&#8221; Gehlot said in the statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In another statement, he also appreciated the contribution made by Karan Singh as chairperson of the AICC foreign affairs department and Joshi as general secretary of north-eastern states.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To set the tone for the 2019 general election, Congress president Rahul Gandhi today made some changes in the party set up. The changes come a month after Rahul Gandhi restructured the party set up and dropped veterans such as Digvijaya Singh, Sushikumar Shinde, Janardhan Dwivedi and CP Joshi from the all-powerful CWC and appointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":300695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[4323,2304,1124,3822,2268,4325,4324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301701,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301699\/revisions\/301701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}