Guwahati: The Congress on Wednesday appointed Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, former Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, and former Jharkhand MLA Bandhu Tirkey as the party’s senior observers for the upcoming Assam assembly elections.
In a statement, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary (Organisation) KC Venugopal announced teams of senior observers for the five states and Union Territories — Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry — going to polls in the first half of this year.
The announcement comes close on the heels of appointing Lok Sabha MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as the chairperson of the screening committee for Assam polls.
For the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Assembly polls, senior party leader Mukul Wasnik and Telangana minister Uttam Kumar Reddy have been made senior observers, along with Qazi Mohammad Nizamuddin.
Sudip Roy Burman, Shakeel Ahmad Khan, and Prakash Joshi have been appointed as senior observers for the West Bengal Assembly election by the Congress.
Polls in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry would be held in the next few months as the tenures of their respective assemblies are due to end in May and June.
