Cong restructures Rajasthan unit

Congress tonight thoroughly restructured its state unit in the BJP-ruled Rajasthan, where it had relinquished power last year, appointing 15 Vice Presidents, 26 general secretaries and 43 secretaries.
Three former governors, including Kamla Beniwal, who was removed by the Narendra Modi government as Mizoram Governor this year following a controversy, have been included in the list of special invitees for the new executive committee for the state.
Beniwal had served for five years as the governor of Gujarat, where she had got into a running feud with Modi, the then Chief Minister. She was later shifted to Mizoram after the NDA government came to power before being relieved of her duty in August this year, just two months before the end of her tenure as governor.

The remaining two former governors included as Special Invitees are BL Joshi and Jagannath Pahadia. Joshi has served as the Uttar Pradesh governor while Pahadia was the governor of Haryana.
Former Union Minister Anand Sharma, Chandresh Kumari Katoch, Bhanwar Jitendra Singh, Namo Narayan Meena, Mahadev Singh Khandela and Lalchand Kataria were also included on the committee as Special Invitees.
Former Union minister the late Sis Ram Ola's son Bijender Singh Ola and ex-ministers in the state government, Beena Kak, Amaduddin Ahmed, Rajinder Pareek, Jitender Singh, Bharat Singh, Parasram Moradiya and Vinod Chaudhary, too, were named to the executive committee, which has 12 permanent invitees and 19 Special Invitees.

Former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has been included as a permanent invitee along with former Union ministers Girija Vyas and CP Joshi. Besides Vyas, former PCC chiefs BD Kalla, Chandrabhan and Narayan Singh were also included as permanent invitees along with CLP leader Dudi.
The appointment of new office-bearers and the executive committee for Congress's Rajasthan unit comes some 10 months after the party went for a generational shift in state politics and made Sachin Pilot the PCC chief for the state and MLA Rameshwar Dudu the Leader of the Congress Legislature Party after its defeat in the Assembly polls.

Congress was also trounced in Rajasthan in the recent Lok Sabha polls with BJP winning all 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state.