Gaurav Gogoi, in his 30s, has replaced CP Joshi, in his 70s, to become the Congress general secretary in charge of West Bengal. And the Andaman Islands.
This puts him in charge of all liaison between Congress President Rahul Gandhi and the Bengal unit of the Congress that has given the nation such leaders as Pranab Mukherjee, Siddhartha Sankar Ray, Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi …. and Mamata Banerjee. That is actually the potential problem.
Gogoi is a first time Member of Parliament (MP) from Assam’s Kaliabor constituency, having won the last general election by a margin of around 90,000 votes. In some ways,
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