In Congress's Top Panel Reshuffle, Thumbs-Up For Sachin Pilot In Poll Year

Sachin Pilot is likely to be made in-charge of a big state, sources said.


   Only three members of the total 39 are under 50 years of age. 

New Delhi: On the birth anniversary of former prime minister and Congress legend Rajiv Gandhi, the grand old party today revealed the members of its highest governing council.

Ahead of the state's next assembly elections, the sulky leader of Rajasthan, Sachin Pilot, has been given a position in the Congress Working Committee.

The party has been attempting to appease the former deputy chief minister of Rajasthan who just publicly embarrassed the state government of his own party, which is led by his rival Asok Gehlot.


The CWC now includes Sachin Pilot, Shishi Tharoor (who stood against Mallikarjun Kharge in the Congress President election last year), Deepa Das Munshi, and Syed Nasser Hussain.

Ms. DasMunshi is a former West Bengal state assemblywoman and the widow of the late Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, a seasoned Congress leader and former Union minister. Ms. Hussain, a member of the Rajya Sabha, previously participated in the Congress' national media panel.





Half of the party's officer-bearers should be under 50, according to KC Venugopal, general secretary (organization) of the party, who made that statement earlier this year.Only three of the 39 CWC members—Sachin Pilot, Gourav Gogoi, and Kamaleshwar Patel—are under the age of 50.

Priyanka Gandhi, the general secretary of the Congress and the person in charge of Uttar Pradesh, is not expected to be appointed to lead any state, according to sources.

The party's president, Mallikarjun Kharge, proposed the members rather than having voters choose them. Though the Congress Steering Committee claimed in February that the decision to allow party chief Mallikarjun Kharge to nominate all CWC members was unanimous, sources claim that it was not; at a meeting held in Chhattisgarh's Raipur as part of the Congress' 85th plenary session, leaders like Ajay Maken, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, and Digvijaya Singh supported elections. 

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