Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai
Mumbai, Jan 21: Mangalurean Janet D'Souza has been appointed general secretary of All India Mahila Congress.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi has approved the appointment of Janet D'Souza and Bismita Gogoi as general secretaries of the All India Mahila Congress, the news agency UNI reported.
Janet D'Souza has earlier served as the vice-president of the Maharashtra State Minority Commission, and as president of the women’s wing of Mumbai regional Congress committee. She had also been appointed Congress party observer for constituencies in Karnataka.
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Janet who hails from Kirem near Kinnigoly in Mangalore, is the daughter of senior Congress leader Celine D’Silva who was the state finance minister in the cabinet of Vasant Dada Patil and later tourism and social welfare minister in Shivajirao Nilangekar’s ministry. Janet worked as teacher and later as principal in Little Flower English School at Ghatkopar founded by her mother. Her husband Lawrence D’Souza was vice-president of the Bombay Catholic Sabha and national secretary of All India Catholic Union.