By Express News Service
NEW DELHI: With the upcoming Assembly elections in thoughts, the Congress on Tuesday appointed Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel as senior observers for Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, respectively.
For Gujarat, the Congress has as soon as once more relied on previous hand and Gandhi household confidante Gehlot, who was former state in-charge. The get together has been out of energy within the state for greater than 20 years. He will probably be assisted by Chhattisgarh cabinet minister T S Singhdeo and former central minister Milind Deora, who had been sidelined within the get together following his resignation as Mumbai Congress chief.
Baghel will oversee Himachal, the place Congress is in a direct combat with the BJP and has higher prospects of forming a authorities, given the anti-incumbency. Former Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot and Punjab MLA Partap Singh Bajwa had been additionally named as observers for the Himalayan state.
