In a major organisational reshuffle before the Assembly elections, the State Executive, media department and minority cell of Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) were reconstituted on Tuesday.
The new State executive will have 25 Vice-Presidents instead of 11 and 26 General Secretaries instead of 16. The media department will now have 10 spokespersons for different regions and two deputy spokespersons.
The 25 Vice-Presidents include Rameshwar Neekhra from Narsinghpur, Bisahulal Singh from Anuppur, Mahendra Singh Kalukheda from Ratlam, Sajjan Verma from Devas, Premchand Gudu from Ujjain, Indrajeet Patel from Singrauli, laxman Singh from Rajgarh, Govind Rajput and Arunodaya Chaube from Sagar, Rajendra Bharati from Ujjain, lakhan Ghanghoria from Jabalpur, Pushpa Bisen from Balaghat, Manak Agrawal, Arif Aqueel, Rajiv Singh and Abha Singh from Bhopal, Govind Singh from Bhind, Sunderlal Tiwari from Rewa, Khurshid Ahmed from Ratlam, Vijay Dubey from Hoshangabad, Hukum Singh Karada from Shajapur, Mohd Abrar from Chhindwara, Pratapbhanu Sharma from Vidisha, Rameshwar Patel and Tulsi Silawat from Indore.
The Congress leaders appointed as General Secretaries are Bala Bachhan, Sukhdev Panse, Sanjay Pathak, Ashok Singh, Rajendra Mishra, Shantilal Pandiyar, Mahendra Singh Chouhan, Sunil Sood, Sajid Ali, Chandrabhan lodhi, Govind Goyal, Shashi Kathuria, Baijnath Singh Yadav, Sanjay Thakur, Manoj Rajani, Virendra Khongal, Naresh Sarraf, Devendra Tekam, Batanlal Sahu, Tanima Dutta, Kalyani Pandey, Sunil Jaiswal, Mujib Quraishi, Ravi Joshi, Ramesh Agrawal and Raghuvir Singh Suryavanshi.
Newly appointed Spokespersons in the media department include Mukesh Nayak, Pramod Gugalia, JP Dhanopia, Narendra Saluja, Noori Khan, Abhay Dubey, laxman Dholi, Ravi Saxena, Vineet Godhi and Chandrashekhar Rayakwar. Sajid Quraishi and Pankaj Chaturvedi have been appointed as deputy-spokespersons in the media department.
The leaders who have been shown the exit doors are Ghanshyam Patidar, Vishwanath Dubey and Chandrabhan Kirade who were vice-presidents earlier. Similarly, Prabhram Choudhary, Nishith Patel, Satyadev Katare, Shashi Rajput, PD Agrawal, Manish Gupta, JM Rain and Geeta Singh have been relieved from posts of general secretary.