 "Dalit leader Janardan Chandurkar is new Mumbai Congress chief")
Nearly after a gap of one year and two months, the city Congress party gets a new president. The party president Sonia Gandhi has appointed a 68 year old prominent dalit leader and former legislator Janardan Chandurkar as the president of Mumbai Regional Congress Committee (MRCC).
The post was lying vacant after erstwhile president Kripa Shankar Singh had resigned in February last year after Congress party’s debacle in the civic body and also after the high court ordered special investigation team to probe alleged the alleged disproportionate assets case. Party MP Eknath Gaikwad and legislators Chandrakant Handore and Bhai Jagtap were also frontrunners for the post.
Lawyer-turned-professor-cum-politician Chandurkar told Business Standard "I am happy to be given this responsibility. I shall chart out my future programme after consulting my party colleagues soon."
Chandurkar will be the Dalit face of the city Congress in next year's Lok Sabha and assembly elections.
The post was lying vacant after erstwhile president Kripa Shankar Singh had resigned in February last year after Congress party’s debacle in the civic body and also after the high court ordered special investigation team to probe alleged the alleged disproportionate assets case. Party MP Eknath Gaikwad and legislators Chandrakant Handore and Bhai Jagtap were also frontrunners for the post.
Lawyer-turned-professor-cum-politician Chandurkar told Business Standard "I am happy to be given this responsibility. I shall chart out my future programme after consulting my party colleagues soon."
Chandurkar will be the Dalit face of the city Congress in next year's Lok Sabha and assembly elections.
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