Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (DV)

Bengaluru, Jan 7: All India Congress Committee (AICC) has appointed senior Congress leaders to oversee the election coordination for the upcoming elections in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry (Union Territory), Assam and West Bengal. Three of them are from Karnataka.

Former Karnataka chief minister M Veerappa Moily has been given the responsibility of being the observer for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. While former deputy chief minister Dr G Parameshwar has been appointed as the observer for Kerala, B K Hariprasad has been appointed observer for West Bengal.

L to R: Moily, Hariprasad, Parameshwar

Two sitting chief ministers - Bhupesh Baghel of Chhattisgarh and Ashok Gehlot of Rajasthan have been appointed as observers for Assam and Kerala respectively.

Overall, Congress has appointed 12 senior leaders including Congress general secretary Mukul Wasnik, MLA of Kadwa constituency in Bihar, Shakeel Ahmad Khan for Assam, former chief minister of Goa, Luizinho Faleiro for Kerala, former HRD minister MM Pallam Raju, Maharashtra cabinet minister, Nitin Raut for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, Alamgir Alam, Vijay Inder Singla for West Bengal.

"I have been appointed as the in-charge of Tamil Nadu earlier and am confident about the state. I have knowledge of the area and of the leaders in the district and taluk level. I have ensured success for our party earlier also. It is a good move and this kind of management is a must. It goes to show that Congress is serious about winning these elections,’’ said Moily in a report by TNIE.

"Of all these states, the most electrifying campaign will be in West Bengal, where Hariprasad will take charge of the team of observers, his other two team members being sitting ministers from Jharkhand and Punjab. I have been there during the last assembly election as screening committee chairman. We had managed to win 42 seats during that time," he said.