It would be a Gujarati v/s Gujarati in Uttar Pradesh.
After a long wait, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed Gujarat MP Madhusan Mistri as the new AICC in-charge of Uttar Pradesh to counter another Gujarati - Amit Shah- BJP in-charge of UP. Mistri replaces Digvijay Singh. Sonia Gandhi also appointed four other secretaries to assist him. "Madhusan Mistri has been selected to take head-one the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his team in UP during the coming lok Sabha elections," Congress spokesman Amarnath Agarwal said.
The four new AICC secretaries and joint in-charge of UP are Naseeb Singh, Prakash Joshi, Rana Goswami and Juber Khan. Parvez Hashmi,the deputy of Digvijay Singh was also not considered for the state. UP Congress president Nirmal Khatri has welcomed the decision of the party high command to appoint Madhusan Mistri as the new in-charge of the state." The new team will certainly boost the morale of the party workers in the state and will cross all the hurdles in the 2014 lok Sabha elections," he said.
Mistri was in-charge of Karnatak ,where the party returned to power recently. He was also attached to UP during the last lok Sabha and assembly elections for screening the party candidates. Meanwhile Two UP leaders legislator Sanjay Kapoor and less known face Swaraj Jivan Balmiki has been appointed
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