: Surjeet Singh Thakur has been appointed as the president of Himachal Pradesh unit of AAP, nearly two months after the party dissolved its working committee in the state following defection of the top functionaries of its state unit to the BJP. The appointment of Thakur was announced by Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia who visited Shimla on Tuesday. Sisodia, accompanied by Himachal AAP co-incharge Sandeep Pathak, also announced the state unit’s other office-bearers, including eight state vice-presidents, one state secretary, one state treasurer, six state joint secretaries, four Lok Sabha in-charges and four Lok Sabha joint secretaries. On April 11, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had dissolved its Himachal Pradesh working committee and announced that it would reorganise it soon, following defection of its then state unit president Anup Kesari and several other senior functionaries to the BJP.