Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Appointed West Bengal Congress Chief
New Delhi:
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday appointed Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury as the brand new president of the West Bengal Congress, the celebration mentioned.
Mr Chowdhury may be the chief of Congress within the Lok Sabha. His appointment was once necessitated after the dying of former West Bengal Congress Committee leader Somen Mitra.
“The Congress president has appointed Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury because the president of West Bengal Congress Committee with instant impact,” an professional communique mentioned overdue on Wednesday evening.
“At this juncture, the celebration additionally recalls the services and products of Past due Shri Somen Mitra, a veteran Congressman whose premature dying has left a void among all Congress staff. He’s going to at all times be remembered for his willpower to the reason,” the AICC basic secretary KC Venugopal mentioned within the remark.
The appointment comes forward of subsequent 12 months’s meeting elections in West Bengal. Mr Chowdhury is regarded as a robust critic of Leader Minister and TMC president Mamata Banerjee.
His appointment additionally caused hypothesis on whether or not he would proceed to carry the put up of the chief of the Congress within the Lok Sabha, going via the celebration’s theory of giving one put up to at least one particular person.