New Delhi: Former Union minister Mullappally Ramachandran was appointed chairman of the Central Election Authority by Congress President Sonia Gandhi tonight, setting in process the party's organisational elections next year.
Party leaders Biren Singh Engti, Shamsher Singh Dullo and Ashk Ali Tak are other members of the committee, AICC General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi announced.
Organisational elections will be held in the party next year from the block level to that of the Congress President, which is expected towards the end of the year.
Gandhi is the longest-serving President of the 128-year-old party, being at the helm for over 16 long years since early 1998.
The party had amended its Constitution at the AICC session at Burari in Delhi in December 2010 by which it had extended the term of the organisational set-up from three to five years.
