Rahul aides dominate Congress revamp; Digvijay, Jairam, Khursheed enter CWC

Aditi Tandon

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 11

Several of former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s aides have found a place in the revamped CWC with veteran Digvijay Singh, Jairam Ramesh, Salman Khursheed and Pramod Tewari also entering as permanent invitees.

Out of 26 permanent invitees to the CWC appointed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday, 11 are known to be close to Rahul.

These include Rajeev Satav, Kuljit Nagra, Bhakta Charan Das, Manickam Tagore, Devendra Yadav, A Chella Kumar, Avinash Pande and Dinesh Gundurao among others.

Even among the 22 regular CWC members, KC Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala, Ajay Maken, Jitendra Singh and RS Meena are part of Rahul Gandhi camp.

Among nine special invitees, seven are leaders who were first promoted and encouraged by Rahul Gandhi.

Even in the party restructuring Rahul’s confidantes have bagged major positions.

Out of nine general secretaries, Randeep Surjewala, Jitendra Singh, and Ajay Makan are Rahul’s close aides.

Out of 17 new AICC in charges, 12 have direct allegiance to Rahul.

This group includes Kuljit Nagra, Rajeev Satav, Dinesh Gundurao, Chella Kumar, Manickam Tagore, Vivek Bansal, Devendra Yadav, Bhakta Charan Das and Manish Chatrath.

Jitin Prasada has been made Bengal in-charge even though he was a signatory to a controversial letter 23 party persons wrote to Sonia demanding leadership changes.