After a long delay, the much-awaited Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) was finally announced on Saturday.
The list of the office bearers of the PCC was released at New Delhi by the general secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC), K C Venugopal after approval of Congress president Sonia Gandhi. The jumbo list has names of 242 congressmen. In the new PCC, 22 leaders have been assigned the post of Vice President. Senior leaders like Rajendra Singh Bhandari, Ranjit Singh Rawat, Mahendra Pal, Mayukh Mahar, Vijaypal Sajwan, Vikram Singh Negi, Madan Bisht, Ganesh Godiyal, Suryakant Dhasmana, P D Bhatt, S P Singh Engineer, Aryendra Sharma, Dhirendra Pratap, Sarojini Kaintura, P S Chauhan and Narayan Pal have been assigned the responsibility of vice president.
The PCC would have 31 general secretaries, the prominent among them being, Vijay Saraswat, Proff Jeetram, Sanjay Paliwal, Yashpal Rana and Bhuwal Kapri. Sunil Gulati has been named as treasurer while 98 leaders most of whom young ones have made secretaries. Senior leaders like Harish Rawat, Indira Hridayesh, Kishore Upadhyaya, Pradip Tamta, Brahmswaroop Bharamchari, Govind Singh Kunjwal, Prakash Josjhi, Manish Khanduri, Karan Mahra, Lt Gen (retd) TPS Rawat, Manoj Rawat and Surendra Singh Negi have been made special invited members of PCC. The party has made 51 special invited members.
The political observers opine that the PCC is a balanced one with party taking care of different factions.
Expressing happiness at the announcement of new PCC, Vice President Surya Kant Dhasmana said that aspirations of all parts and sections of the State have been taken care of in the PCC. Another Congress leader Mahesh Joshi said that the Congress party under leadership of Pritam Singh would win the next Assembly election in the State.
Pritam Singh was appointed as PCC chief in May 2017 after the severe drubbing the party faced at the hands of BJP in the Assembly elections in the State.
In these two and half years, Singh was not able to select his new team in the PCC and continued to work with the old PCC team that was chosen during the time when Kishore Upadhyaya was PCC President.
