The Congress has appointed senior observers for overseeing poll campaign management and coordination for the forthcoming Assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and West Bengal.
The list of the observers does not include Randeep Singh Surjewala and Avinash Pandey, who were in charge of the Bihar election and Sonia Gandhi has accommodated senior leaders for the task after some of them wrote a dissenting letter to the interim party chief in August.
For West Bengal, former Congress General Secretary B.K. Hariprasad along with Jharkhand leader Alamgir Alam and Punjab Minister Vijay Inder Singla have been appointed as observers while for Assam, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, General Secretary Mukul Wasnik and Shakeel Ahmed Khan has beeen given the task.
For Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, Veerappa Moily and MM Pallam Raju, both former Union ministers, and Nitin Raut a minister in Maharashtra government have been appointed.
While Rajasthan…