Overview
- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge approved the appointments, which KC Venugopal announced in an AICC statement.
- DK Shivakumar was assigned to Assam alongside Bhupesh Baghel and Bandhu Tirkey.
- Kerala will be overseen by Sachin Pilot, KJ George, Imran Pratapgarhi and Kanhaiya Kumar.
- Mukul Wasnik, Uttam Kumar Reddy and Qazi Mohammad Nizamuddin were named for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, while Sudip Roy Barman, Shakeel Ahmad Khan and Prakash Joshi were assigned to West Bengal.
- The party casts the designations as an organisational push before the polls, with Shivakumar’s role drawing attention given ongoing strains within the Karnataka leadership.