Eye on election, Congress picks new J&K party chief

NEW DELHI: Hours after announcement of the election schedule for J&K, Congress appointed Tariq Hameed Karra at the new state president in place of Vikas Rasool Wani. The party also named Tara Chand and Raman Bhalla as working presidents of J&K Congress.

Sources said leaders from the state had recently demanded that a senior person should be handed the reins of the state unit for better coordination with allies during elections. Also, Wani is from Jammu region. As a placatory gesture, the party named Wani as a special invitee to the Congress Working Committee.

Stating that Congress had demanded early polls to rid J&K of "rule of bureaucracy", party president Mallikarjun Kharge said, "They (govt) gave more powers to the LG by amending the Rules under Section 55 of the J&K Reorganisation Act, 2019... In the past decade, Modi government has performed many electoral experiments in J&K, but the people have time and again rejected BJP's undemocratic tactics trampling upon their constitutional rights... People of J&K are yearning for change. They are looking towards Congress and its allies to usher in justice."


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