Amit Chavda is new Gujarat Cong chief

Three-time MLA Amit Chavda was today appointed as the new Gujarat Congress chief, replacing Bharatsinh Solanki, the party said in a statement here.

Congress had lost the 2017 Gujarat Assembly election but improved its tally to 77 from 60 in the 2012 elections.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi has appointed Amit Chavda, MLA, as the president of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee in place of Bharatsinh Solanki, the statement said.

"The party recognises the service and contribution of Sri Bharatsinh Solanki, who has relinquished the responsibility ads the GPCC president," it said.

Recently Solanki had met Gandhi. "I will do whatever work the party assigns me," he had said later.

"After the party's defeat in the 2017 Gujarat polls, I had offered to resign but the high command asked me to continue working," he added.