The newly appointed president of the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee, and Chakrata MlA Pritam Singh will be formally assume his charge on May 11. A function has been organised at the Congress Bhawan to mark the occasion.
A meeting of the party’s preparation committee was held to discuss arrangements for the event here on Monday. Senior party leaders Jot Singh Bisht, Vijay Saraswat, Rajendra Shah, district Panchayat head Chaman Singh, Congress Mahanagar head Prithviraj Chauhan, former head lalchand Sharma and other office bearers were present in the meeting to discuss preparations for Pritam Singh’s formal taking up of the charge of PCC president.
The route for the programme of the PCC president was ascertained in the meeting. Similar meetings to review arrangements have been slated on May 9 of Haridwar Mahanagar Congress Committee, Haridwar rural unit, Roorkee Mahanagar and rural units of the party.
For these meetings, party leaders Vijay Saraswat, Rajendra Shah and Sanjay Paliwal will be present as observers on behalf of the PCC.
Providing this information, the chief spokesman of the PCC Mathura Datt Joshi said that the newly appointed PCC president is slated to formally assume his new charge on May 11 at the PCC office.
Prior to that, the PCC chief Pritam Singh will be part of a procession which will travel from the municipal corporation of Dehradun to Tehsil Chowk and Clock Tower before reaching Congress Bhawan on Rajpur Road.
In the programme organised at the Congress Bhawan, Singh will be welcomed by party workers on the occasion. The previous president of the PCC, Kishore Upadhyay, former chief minister Harish Rawat, MlAs of the party, former MlAs and state office bearers of the PCC among others are also expected to be present on the occasion.