Appointments of chairmen of state Congress departments

New Delhi, Aug 24 (UNI) Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed chairmen for various state departments of the party.

For the Scheduled Castes Department, Mr Hemprakash Narayan has been named chairman for Asom, Mr Rajiv Nath for Meghalaya, Mr S K Bardewa for Sikkim and Mr Durgacharan Das for Jharkhand.

For the OBC Department, Dr Prayag Prasad Singh has been appointed chairman of Bihar, Mr Ramesh Thakur of Gujarat and Mr T Subhash Singh of Manipur.

For Kisan and Khet Mazdoor Congress, Mr Vinayak Patil has been made chairman of Maharashtra, Mr Debasis Dutta of West Bengal, Mr Bhupinder Singh Phogat of Haryana, Mr Sidhanshu Ranjan Dhar of Tripura and Mr H Nabakumar Singh of Manipur, a party release said today.

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