Ajeet Sharma is a Member of Parliament for Bhagalpur in Bihar
Patna:
Congress said on Friday its deputy for Bhagalpur, Ajeet Sharma, his party leader in the Legislative Assembly of Bihar, while Rajesh Kumar Ram, who represents Kutumba, was appointed chief whip of the assembly.
The announcement was made jointly by Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Avinash Pande, senior leader and chairman of the party’s selection committee for the recently concluded Assembly elections, at the BPCC headquarters in Patna.
The meeting to nominate officers began before noon and continued into the evening, with party workers pledging allegiance to different factions often engaging in fist fights and raising slogans against each other.
According to a statement released by the BPCC, Kasba MLA Afaque Alam has been appointed deputy leader of the Legislative Party of Congress and Anand Shankar Singh, who represents Aurangabad, has been appointed treasurer.
In addition, Khagaria MP Chhatrapati Yadav and Rajapakar MP Pratima Kumari Das were appointed deputy chief whips.
According to the party’s statement, Bhupesh Baghel and Avinash Pande were accompanied by the chairman of the electoral campaign committee Akhilesh Prasad Singh, the secretary in charge of the AICC Virendra Rathore and the incumbent chairman of the BPCC Kaukab Qadri.
The individual opinions of all 19 newly elected MPs were sought before they were forwarded to the national headquarters in New Delhi, he said.
The announcements were made following a telephone approval from the party’s high command.
(Except for the title, this story was not edited by GalacticGaming staff and is posted from a syndicated feed.)
