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The Congress on Friday appointed office-bearers of the party’s Andhra Pradesh unit.
According to a statement issued by Congress general secretary K C Venugopal, 29 vice-presidents were appointed in the state unit. These include Sripathi Prakasham, N Surya Nayak, K Ramadevi, Venugopal Reddy, K Shivaji, K T Sreedhar and Bandi Zakaria.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge also appointed 64 general secretaries for the party’s state unit, including S M Ruthula, B David, Dola Srinivas, Meda Suresh, Boda Venkat and M M Rao.
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P Konda Reddy, P Prabhakar, S Annaji Rao, R Babu, Chinthala Mohan Rao and G V T Rao the other members, it said.
“C Panduranga Rao, S Ramesh Kumar, Aruna Kumari, Ganta Anji Babu and Marinidi Sekar, S Prataph Reddy, N Narashimarao, M Osman, Y Gopi, Tikki Royal, among others were appointed district and city Congress committee chiefs,” the statement said.
The southern state will go to polls next year.
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