Azharuddin named T'gana Cong working president

HYDERABAD: Former Congress MP Mohammed Azharuddin used to be on Friday appointed operating president of the party in Telangana days ahead of meeting elections in the southern state.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi additionally cleared some contemporary appointments in the Telangana Pradesh Congress, approving the names of two vice presidents - B M Vinod Kumar and Jaffer Javed, 8 new common secretaries and four secretaries in the state unit.

"Congress president Rahul Gandhi has approved the appointment of Mohammed Azharuddin, ex-MP, as working president of the Telanagana Pradesh Congress Committee," a observation from AICC common secretary Ashok Gehlot said.

Azharuddin used to be a former captain of the Indian cricket workforce. His cricket occupation got here to an abrupt finish when he used to be implicated in the infamous match-fixing scandal in 2000 and used to be banned by means of the BCCI for lifestyles. However, the Andhra Pradesh high court in 2012 declared the lifestyles ban on him as illegal.

Azharuddin used to be an MP from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh in 2009, after he joined the Congress in the similar yr. He once more unsuccessfully contested the 2014 election from Rajasthan's Tonk-Sawai Madhopur constituency in 2014.

The former cricketer, who hails from Hyderabad, is seeking to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Secunderabad constituency in Telangana.

Telangana is going to polls on December 7 and the Congress has cast an alliance with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in the state to oust the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led Government of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS).

The Congress chief additionally appointed former Delhi MP Sandeep Dikshit as Secretary of AICC and attached him to the AICC Civic and Social Outreach Congress.


Dikshit is the son of former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit and has been an MP from the Delhi East constituency earlier.


The party chief additionally appointed Lingaraju as president of Karnataka Pradesh Fishermen Congress.


Among the ones appointed new common secretaries of Telanagana Pradesh Congress are Jagadeeshwara Rao, Nagesh Mudiraj, T Narsa Reddy, Manavatha Roy, Faheem, Kailash, Laxma Reddy and Krishank.


The new secretaries of TPCC are Durgam Bhaskar, Daruvu Ellanna, Vijay Kumar and Bala Laxmi.
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