The Congress on Saturday appointed Dalit leader Brijlal Khabri as its Uttar Pradesh unit chief and nominated six regional chiefs as part of efforts to revive its fortunes in the politically crucial state ahead of the 2024 general elections. The appointments come months after Ajay Lallu resigned from the post of state unit chief following the party’s crushing defeat in the 2022 assembly polls.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi appointed former BSP leader Khabri as the President of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee, along with Naseemuddin Siddiqui, Ajay Rai, Virendra Choudhary, Nakul Dubey, Anil Yadav and Yogesh Dixit as regional chiefs in the state unit. Nominated. said the statement. Party sources said that as part of its strategy to strengthen the organisation, the UP Congress has divided the entire state into six parts- Paschim, Braj, Awadh, Bundelkhand, Prayag and Purvanchal on politico-cultural lines.
Party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has already posted national secretaries in each zone. Now each zone will have a president. The party has also tried to balance caste equations with new appointments. UP Congress has given a message to the Dalit society by appointing Khabri as its president. Sources said that two of the regional chiefs are Brahmins, one Muslim, one Bhumihar and two are from backward castes.
He told that Chaudhary will be the president of Purvanchal region, Ajay Rai will be the head of Prayag, Nakul Dubey will look after Awadh, Anil Yadav (Etawa) Braj, Siddiqui will look after West and after Bundelkhand, Dixit. Khabri left the BSP in 2016 and joined the Congress.
In March, Khabri’s predecessor Lallu had resigned as UP Congress president after the party secured just two seats out of 403 in the assembly elections, despite Vadra’s aggressive campaign.
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