Kalahandi MP Bhakta Charan Das among the new spokespersons of Congress Party: Congratulation to Mr. Das

Rashid Alvi is Congress spokesperson no more

India Today, May 6, 2013

The Congress party has dropped Rashid Alvi from its panel of spokespersons while inducting three new faces and retaining the existing three.

The three new spokespersons are Raj Babbar, Bhakta Charan Das and Meem Afzal. Renuka Chowdhary, PC Chacko, Sandeep Dikshit have been retained in the panel while Mohan Prakash and Shakeel Ahmed make a comeback.

Ahmed was earlier relieved of the post when he was made CWC in charge of West Bengal and Jharkhand.

While Babbar is a Lok Sabha MP from Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh), Das, a former Union minister, is a Lok Sabha MP from Kalahandi (Orissa).

Urdu enthusiast and journalist Meem Afzal is a former Rajya Sabha MP.

Congress general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi made the announcement saying the appointment of spokespersons has been made by party president Sonia Gandhi with immediate effect.

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