New Delhi, Jan 6 2021: The Congress on Wednesday appointed its senior leaders including Chief Ministers Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Baghel as observers to oversee the party”s election campaign management for the upcoming assembly polls in several states and a Union territory.
Assembly elections are due to be held in the states of Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the UT of Puducherry by the middle of this year.
Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot, former Goa chief minister Luizinho Faleiro and Karnataka”s former deputy chief minister G Parameswara have been appointed as senior observers for the Kerala assembly polls.
Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, the party”s general secretary Mukul Wasnik and senior leader Shakeel Ahmad Khan have been appointed as senior ovservers for the Assam assembly polls.
For the elections in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, senior party leaders and former union ministers M Veerappa Moily and M M Pallam Raju, besides sitting cabinet minister in Maharashtra Nitin Raut have been appointed as senior observers.
For the West Bengal assembly elections, senior party leader B K Hariprasad and Alamgir Alam, besides Punjab minister Vijay Inder Singla have been appointed as observers.