Vilas Muttemwar made Congress General Secretary

New Delhi, July 12 (PTI) Vilas Muttemwar, who Tuesday
missed the bus to the Indian Cabinet, was made Congress Party
General Secretary while Arun Yadav was named party Secretary
after he was dropped from the Ministry.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi made the appointments
close on the heels of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
reshuffling his Council of Ministers.
62-year old Muttemwar, a Congress leader from Vidarbha
region of western Indian state Maharashtra, is a Lok Sabha
(lower house of Indian parliament) member from Nagpur and was
a prominent ministerial hopeful.
There has been talk that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
President Nitin Gadkari could contest the next Lok Sabha polls
from Nagpur.
Muttemwar was a Minister of State in the United
Progressive Alliance UPA-I holding independent charge of New
and Renewable Energy.
Yadav, who was Minister of State for Agriculture and
Food Processing, is a Lok Sabha member from Khandwa in central
Indian state Madhya Pradesh.
The announcement was made by All India Congress
Committee (AICC) General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi.
With the appointment of Muttemwar, the Congress will
have ten General Secretaries. The party has more than 30
secretaries.