HYDERABAD: A Revanth Reddy has been appointed new president of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee.
The Malkajgiri MP’s name was announced by the Congress central leadership on Saturday evening.
Former Indian cricket captain Mohd Azharuddin has been named one of the six working presidents.
In the 2018 assembly elections, Revanth Reddy had campaigned for the Congress party in different constituencies but was unable to retain his Kondangal.
Nevertheless, the party fielded him in the Lok Sabha elections the following year in 2019 and he won from Malkajgiri.
The six working presidents named in the AICC announcement are Mohd Azharuddin, J Geeta Reddy, M Anjan Kumar Yadav, T Jagga Reddy and B Mahesh Kumar Goud.
The senior vice presidents appointed are Chandrasekhar Sambani, Damodhar Reddy, Ravi Mallu, Podem Veeraiah, Suresh Shetakar, Vem Narender Reddy, Ramesh Mudiraj, Gopishetty Niranjan T Kumar Rao and Javeed Ameer.