Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday dissolved the whole Himachal Pradesh celebration unit, PTI reported.
The transfer is being seen because the grand outdated celebration’s effort to restructure the hill state’s Congress unit. There was no change inside its ranks ever because the celebration shaped the federal government within the state in December 2022.
Outgoing Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief Pratibha Singh is already a member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the topmost choice making physique of the celebration.
Singh, the spouse of former chief minister Virbhadra Singh, was appointed as state Congress chief in April 2022.
“Congress president has accredited the proposal to dissolve the whole state unit of the PCC, district presidents and Block Congress Committees of Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee, with instant impact,” an official communication from AICC common secretary Ok C Venugopal stated.
The Himachal PCC has been reportedly hit by factionalism, seen through the Rajya Sabha election.
Congress candidate Abhishek Manu Singhvi misplaced to Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) rival Harsh Mahajan after some celebration MLAs defected and cross-voted.
Mahajan was appointed one of many working presidents of Himachal Congress when he switched sides and joined the BJP.
A number of names are doing the rounds for the brand new celebration chief within the state. Some ministers, together with Anirudh Singh and Harshvardhan Chauhan, are among the many outstanding ones.
Earlier this 12 months, the Congress excessive command dissolved the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee following the celebration’s dismal efficiency within the State and common elections.
OPCC president Sarat Pattanayak and different office-bearers had been eliminated in July following the celebration’s disappointing efficiency in 2024 election. Presently, the Odisha Congress is being run by a 15-member coordination committee after the AICC dissolved the celebration’s state unit. All of the district, block and divisional committees of the celebration in Odisha had been additionally dissolved.
