The Congress Party on Tuesday appointed Ganesh Godiyal as the new President of the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) with immediate effect, a press release said.
Amidst recent defections from the Congress party ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Karan Mahara, the Uttarakhand Congress President, accused the BJP of using coercive tactics and offering personal incentives to lure leaders away.
While speaking to ANI, Uttarakhand Congress President Karan Mahara said, "Instead of making rhetoric in electronic, print media and social media, keep your point only in the appropriate forum of the party so that the image of the party organization does not get tarnished".
The incident detailed by Congress pertains to a workshop organized in the context of the Booth Empowerment Campaign at the state BJP headquarters on February 24.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], April 12 (ANI): Dissatisfied Congress' MLAs will hold a confidential meeting in Dehradun on Wednesday over the appointments of Karan Mahara as president of its Uttarakhand Congress unit and Yashpal Aria as Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leader respectively.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], April 10 (ANI): Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday appointed Karan Mahara as the president of Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee, as per the official statement of AICC.