{"id":307966,"date":"2019-01-11T05:41:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T05:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307966"},"modified":"2019-01-11T05:41:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T05:41:51","slug":"sheila-dikshit-appointed-as-delhi-congress-president-kuldeep-singh-rathore-as-himachal-pradesh-congress-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sheila-dikshit-appointed-as-delhi-congress-president-kuldeep-singh-rathore-as-himachal-pradesh-congress-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila Dikshit appointed as Delhi Congress President, Kuldeep Singh Rathore as Himachal Pradesh Congress chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307967 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/sheilakuldeep-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/sheilakuldeep-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/sheilakuldeep.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The three-time Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was appointed as the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president on Thursday, days after Ajay Maken resigned from the post citing ill-health.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">P C Chacko, All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Delhi unit made the announcement and said Dikshit would be assisted by three working presidents &#8212; Devender Yadav, Haroon Yusuf and Rajesh Lilotia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maken congratulated Dikshit on being appointed as president of Delhi Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said, &#8220;Congratulations and well wishes to Sheila Dikshit on being appointed as president of Delhi Congress. I had the opportunity to work and learn under her as a parliamentary secretary and as a cabinet minister. I believe under her leadership we will play the role of a powerful opposition against Modi+Kejriwal governments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh Congratulated Dikshit on her appointment as Delhi Congress President.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongratulations to @SheilaDikshit Ji on her appointment as President of @INCDelhi. Delhiites still remember the consistent development that happened during her tenure. I\u2019m sure under her dynamic leadership &amp; guidance, @INCIndia will make a comeback in Delhi! Best wishes to her,\u201d Amarinder tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In another appointment by Congress, Senior Congress leader Kuldeep Singh Rathore was appointed as the president of the party&#8217;s Himachal Pradesh unit, replacing Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi cleared his appointment as the party prepares for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rathore is a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) and former general secretary and the chief spokesman of the party&#8217;s state unit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three-time Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was appointed as the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president on Thursday, days after Ajay Maken resigned from the post citing ill-health.\u00a0 P C Chacko, All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Delhi unit made the announcement and said Dikshit would be assisted by three working presidents &#8212; Devender Yadav, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2898,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[577,10565,10566,5366,10567],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307966"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307969,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307966\/revisions\/307969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}